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India reliable partner of US, working on at least 3 COVID-19 vaccines: Amb
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 10 (ANI): The Indian and American pharmaceutical companies are currently working together on at least three possible vaccines to fight the coronavirus, India Ambassador to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, told ANI on Saturday.
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Potential coronavirus vaccine enters human testing in US
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 06 (ANI): United States-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has begun testing multiple versions of an experimental vaccine in healthy young people in America.
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PM Modi chairs meeting of task force on coronavirus vaccine, drug discover
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the task force on coronavirus vaccine development, drug discovery, diagnosis and testing and took a detailed review of the current status of India's efforts in these areas.
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Race for coronavirus vaccine intensifies
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 03 (ANI): A cure or vaccine for the Coronavirus infection, which has brought the world economy and public health system to the brink of collapse, is the need of the hour. The search for a vaccine has begun around the globe at an intensity never before seen in medical res
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After taking lead in clinical trials, Oxford hoping to get COVID-19 vaccin
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], April 28 (ANI): As the world is scrambling to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Oxford's Jenner Institute, which got a headstart following the progress in its clinical trials, is now hoping that first few million doses of the vaccine could be made available by September -- which is
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Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson donate blood to help develop coronavirus vaccine
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 26 (ANI): After recovering from coronavirus, veteran actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson have now offered their blood to help develop a vaccine for coronavirus.
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Beggars can't be choosers: How Imran Khan sold Pakistani citizens to a Chi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], April 25 (ANI): A letter dated April 21, 2020, arrived at the desk of Major General Aamir Ikram, executive director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), a 40-year-old vaccine research and manufacturing facility located in Chak Shezad in Islamabad.
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Potential COVID-19 vaccine developed at Oxford to be tested on people this
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], April 22 (ANI): A potential vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the University of Oxford is set to be trialled on people for the first time on April 23, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock said on Tuesday.
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CSIR testing anti-leprosy vaccine Mw for COVID-19, says DG Shekhar Mande
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (SCIR) Director-General Dr Shekhar C Mande on Sunday said that the institute is currently testing Mycobacterium w (Mw), which is a vaccine for leprosy, to treat COVID-19.
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PM Modi requests young Indian scientists to work towards coronavirus vacci
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday requested young scientists of the country to come forward and take the lead in developing a vaccine for novel coronavirus which has claimed over one lakhs lives worldwide.
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Vaccine yet to be developed to treat COVID-19 patients: ICMR
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 12 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday said that no vaccine has yet been developed for the treatment of coronavirus.
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Coronavirus vaccines are moving towards clinical trials
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 9 (ANI): Just three months after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, several biotech companies in the United States have ramped up their efforts to fight the disease with accelerated schedules for creating new vaccines and beginning clinical trials for potential t
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