Berlin gave the German company $445 million in an agreement in September to help accelerate the vaccine by building out manufacturing & development capacity in its home market.
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday that their vaccine candidate prevented over 90% of Covid-19 cases in an early look at results from their 44,000-person clinical trial.
With effectiveness for first vaccines previously expected to be in range of 60% to 70%, more than 90% for Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is seen as extraordinary.
Pfizer and BioNTech on track to potentially be the first to show the efficacy of a Covid-19 vaccine, in an environment of intense scrutiny over every possible complication.
A little patience would help deliver much more information and give other vaccine hopefuls, apart from the front-runners, a chance to prove their worth as well.
Pfizer chief Albert Bourla says his firm and its partner BioNTech have a 60% chance of knowing the efficacy of their still experimental vaccine by end of October.
While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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