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Drugs control organisation issues guidelines for trial, marketing of vacci
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) said the requirements and guidelines to conduct clinical trial or grant of permission for the marketing of new drugs including vaccines are prescribed under New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 201
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US Congress needs to provide USD 6 billion to distribute coronavirus vacc
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Washington [US], September 18 (ANI): A top US health official has said that Congress needs to provide about USD 6 billion to help the country prepare for what is expected to be the largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign ever undertaken, Washington Post reported.
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Russia's Vector says COVID-19 vaccine provides immunity lasting at least 6
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], September 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Russia's research center Vector does not provide life-long immunity, but guarantees immunity that will last at least six months, the head of the center's zoonotic diseases and flu department said on Thursd
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India's COVID-19 tally cross 51 lakh-mark, 100 pc rise in recoveries in pa
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): India's COVID-19 tally crossed 51-lakh mark with a spike of 97,894 new cases and 1,132 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.
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Need to ensure access to COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines is f
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New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Access to protection should not be a factor of the ability to pay and there is a need to ensure that access to COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines is fair and equitable, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday.
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Hopeful COVID-19 vaccine will be available in India next year: Harsh Vardh
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that he is hopeful that by early next year, the vaccine will be available in India and added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi handled Covid-19 meticulously.
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Mask not more effective than vaccine, says Trump
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Despite Robert Redfield, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that wearing a mask would be more effective than a vaccine against the coronavirus, President Donald Trump said that the mask is "not more effective" than t
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COVID-19 vaccine could be distributed in US from October: Trump
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) said that the COVID-19 vaccine could be distributed across the United States starting October and close to a hundred million doses could be distributed by the end of 2020.
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Trump administration releases plan to offer a COVID-19 vaccine to all Amer
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Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): The US government has unveiled a plan to offer a COVID-19 vaccine to all Americans free of charge as early as January.
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Dr Reddy's, RDIF to supply 100 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine to India
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad/Moscow, Sep 16 (ANI): Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have agreed to cooperate on clinical trials and distribution of Sputnik V vaccine in India.
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Russia to supply 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to India's Dr. Redd
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], September 16 (ANI): The Russian Direct Investment Fund on Wednesday confirmed reaching an agreement to supply 100 million doses of Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V to India's Dr. Reddy's Laboratories.
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DCGI gives nod to Serum Institute to restart phase 2,3 trials for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI): The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has allowed Serum Institute of India (SII) to restart its phase two and three clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine after the pharma major submitted the recommendations of the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSM
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