This is a 'practical and realistic timeline' as vaccines will go through registration then clinical trials for a number of months, says Maria Rosario Vergeire, Health Undersecretar.
As a physician-scientist, I am asked how I can be sure that researchers will develop a successful Covid vaccine — after all, we still don’t have one for HIV.
The virus has divided humans in countless ways — if citizens opt to stay unvaccinated, the virus and messy ethics of compelling vaccination will create another permanent division.
The primary goal of the final study, which will include 30,000 people, will be to show the vaccine prevents people from developing symptoms of Covid-19.
It isn’t yet known whether CNBG’s vaccines, which employ a dead strain of the novel coronavirus to elicit an immune response from the body, can prevent the infection.
Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford University, told The Times that she is 80 per cent confident the vaccine would work, and could be ready in six months.
While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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