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PM Modi chairs meeting of task force on coronavirus vaccine, drug discover
Updated : 5 years, 10 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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Draft report projects COVID-19 will claim over 3,000 lives per day in US b
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 5 (ANI): Contrary to claims made by US President Donald Trump, a draft government report has projected that COVID-19 deaths in the country will rise to more than 3,000 a day by June 1, with new confirmed cases surging to about 200,000 daily.
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We will have a vaccine by the end of year: US President Donald Trump
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], May 4 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) expressed confidence that a vaccine for coronavirus could be available by the end of the year.
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Race for coronavirus vaccine intensifies
Updated : 5 years, 10 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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IIT Guwahati, Hester Biosciences collaborate to develop vaccine against CO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Guwahati/Ahmedabad [India], April 29 (ANI): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati is collaborating with Hester Biosciences Ltd to work on vaccine development against COVID-19, both organisations said on Wednesday.
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Union Health Minister asks DBT, others to fastrack development of COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan held a video-conferencing meeting with directors of Department of Biotechnology, its 18 autonomous bodies and PSUs and asked them to fastrack the activities pertaining to the development of the vaccine for COVID-19, sa
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After taking lead in clinical trials, Oxford hoping to get COVID-19 vaccin
Updated : 5 years, 10 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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Delhi's COVID-19 survivor donates plasma for treatment of others
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): While work underway for developing vaccines in many countries of the world against the coronavirus, promising results have come in the treatment of COVID-19 from plasma therapy.
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Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson donate blood to help develop coronavirus vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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COVID-19 vaccine must be considered public good with universal availabilit
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 25 (ANI): The under-trial vaccine for coronavirus must be considered a global public good and made affordable with universal availability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday (local time).
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WHO launches 'landmark' collaboration to develop COVID-19 drug, vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 24 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday launched a 'landmark' international collaboration to accelerate the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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