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Pfizer vaccine could offer protection against new Covid variant, shows study

The study showed the vaccine is likely to generate a protective immune response to new coronavirus variants carrying the so-called N501Y mutation in the virus’s spike protein.

WHO’s vaccine advisory body recommends administering both doses of Pfizer within 21-28 days

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE), however, said countries can space out doses depending on vaccine supply constraints and epidemiological settings.

Everything we know about Covishield, one of 2 Covid vaccines likely to get nod for use in India

Covishield is Serum Institute of India’s version of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that had been in the works for several months.

Pfizer backs two-dose Covid vaccine schedule after UK spaces out shots

People should get their shots on the recommended schedule, Pfizer said, warning 'there is no data to demonstrate that protection after the first dose is sustained after 21 days.'

You thought coronavirus is our newsmaker of 2020? No, it’s science-made mRNA, its nemesis

The mRNA technology never won approval before the Covid pandemic in any drug or vaccine. But Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó never gave up on her research either.

Over 1 million people in US have received Covid vaccine shots

Shots are rolling out from Pfizer and Moderna, focused at first on healthcare workers around the country who have been battling the virus on the front lines in hospitals.

Dubai to offer free Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine shots from Wednesday

Dubai locked down the city for about a month earlier this year to halt the spread of the virus. The UAE diagnosed over 195,000 people with Covid since the start of the outbreak.

Singapore approves Pfizer Covid vaccine, expects first shots by December-end

Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong said first priority will be given to those who are at greatest risk: healthcare workers and front-line personnel, as well as the elderly and vulnerable.

Pfizer could give Covid vaccine shots to trial participants who received placebo

Pending required approvals, Pfizer & BioNTech plan to provide option for clinical trial participants who received the placebo to get Covid vaccine, the company said in a statement.

Pfizer shot gets FDA advisers’ nod as agency decision on emergency authorisation nears

Committee of advisers voted 17 to 4, with one abstention, that the benefits of the vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE outweigh the risks for use in people ages 16 and older.

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Afzalgunj to Begum Bazar—Hyderabad’s markets don’t look ‘nawabi’. Marwaris, Gujjus built them

Some of Hyderabad’s oldest jewellery and perfume stores—many dating back to the Nizam era—are run by Marwari, Gujrati, and Jain families.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?