Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik said the ICU had been newly built to treat Covid patients, and the fact that a fire had broken out was a “very serious issue” Ahmednagar: Ten patients have died after a fire broke out in the ICU (intensive care unit) of the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar at around 11 … Read more
Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, which has developed Covaxin, had submitted EOI (Expression of Interest) to the World Health Organisation on April 19 for the vaccine’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL). United Nations/Geneva: India’s Bharat Biotech has been submitting data on the EUL of Covaxin “regularly and very quickly” to a technical committee which hopes to have a … Read more
The Pune-based Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine-maker, requested approval for the Oxford vaccine, Covishield, on December 6. New Delhi: Serum institute and Bharat Biotech’s proposals for emergency vaccine use were not cleared today over inadequate safety and efficacy data, sources said on Wednesday. The two have been asked by a panel of experts to … Read more
The new trial would be run instead of adding an arm to an ongoing US trial and would evaluate a lower dosage that performed better than a full amount in Astras studies. The company acknowledgment that the lower level was given in error fueled concerns. AstraZeneca Plc is likely to conduct an additional global trial … Read more
The spike comes on a day the Delhi government was pulled up by the High Court, which asked the government about action taken over the last two weeks to control the contagion. New Delhi: The daily coronavirus spike in Delhi reached a new high over the last 24 hours on Wednesday, with the city crossing … Read more
Over the last days, Delhi has been witnessing what Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the third peak of coronavirus. New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal government was pulled up by the Delhi High Court today for relaxing safety norms for public gatherings and transport, as the city witnesses an unprecedented surge in the coronavirus infections. Observing … Read more