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Sunday, July 27, 2025
TopicCovid vaccine

Topic: Covid vaccine

A Cold War has started over coronavirus vaccine with allegations of Russian cyberattacks

Vaccine nationalism is already a concern as countries jockey to secure doses of future shots, desperate for a way out of a global crisis that’s slammed their economies.

J&J is in talks with EU, Japan, Gates Foundation to secure and price its Covid vaccine

J&J announced in June that it had accelerated vaccine trials with ambitions of launching human studies in mid-July. The company will dose its first patients on 22 July in Belgium.

Data on Oxford Covid vaccine to be released soon, could give some good news and a timeline

Quoting the director of the institute developing the Oxford vaccine, news report says it could be rolled out by October if all goes well.

Moderna Covid vaccine produced antibodies in all patients tested in initial trial

The vaccine will move into a much larger late-stage trial later this month that will likely to determine whether it gets approved by US regulators.

22 states match WHO standard of 140 Covid tests/day per million, Gujarat & Bengal lag behind

The health ministry reiterated that states needed to take ownership of the Covid fight. It also said India's mortality currently stood at 2.6 per cent.

Russia’s Sechenov University successfully completes clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine

According to Sechenov University's Alexander Lukashev, the objective of the trial was to show the vaccine's safety for human health, which was successfully done.

Thailand set to start human trials for its Covid-19 vaccine in September

Globally, 160 vaccines are being studied for Covid-19, of which 21 are at the clinical evaluation stage, according to the World Health Organization.

Peer-reviewed JNU study among 2 that link BCG & Covid again, but some experts not convinced

Two peer-reviewed studies have shown a pattern of reduced mortality from Covid among BCG-vaccinated countries, but epidemiologists don’t think evidence is strong

Earliest possible Covid vaccine by first quarter of 2021, officials tell parliamentary panel

Members of Rajya Sabha panel on science & technology press for virtual meetings, with just 6 of 30 MPs attending Friday’s meeting because of Covid.

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Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.