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India's research, manufacturing critical to fighting Covid-19: Bill Gates

India's research and manufacturing will be critical to fighting Covid-19 especially for making vaccines on a large scale, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said on Monday

India at the forefront of coronavirus vaccine development: PM Modi

'Science will never prosper in silos', says Prime Minister in speech appealing for international cooperation

Major urban areas see double-digit decline in new Covid-19 cases

There has also been a fall in the absolute number of tests done from their peak values

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Czech cops clash with protesters opposing curbs

UK businesses seek property rate cut, many rapid tests in US go unreported, China's central bank says economy to expand 2%, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Vaccine storage demands could leave 3 billion people without access

For poor countries like Burkina Faso, the best chance of receiving a coronavirus vaccine is through the Covax initiative, led by the World Health Organization and the Gavi vaccine alliance

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Delhi hospitals see surge in cases, boost infra

Govt panel claims Covid peak over, Experts warn against reinfection panic, and Pimpri-Chinchwad civic chief frets over festive season--news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

Covid-19 Factoid: Daily tests conducted by India are declining for 4 days

On Sunday, 859,786 coronavirus tests were conducted across the country. This was the lowest daily number since September 27

Antibodies fade quickly in recovering Covid-19 patients, study finds

Antibody levels in the blood of COVID-19 patients drop rapidly during the weeks after their bodies have cleared the novel coronavirus, and symptoms have subsided, according to a study. In the absence of approved, effective treatments for COVID-19, some hospitals have been treating patients with severe symptoms with blood plasma from recovering patients. If convalescent plasma is ultimately shown to have a clear benefit, the new study published in the journal mBio concluded that it needs to be collected during a specific window of time after recovery. However, recovering patients can't donate blood until at least 14 days after symptoms have subsided, to give the body time to clear viral particles. "We don't want to transfuse the virus, just transfuse the antibodies," said Andres Finzi at the University of Montreal in Canada. "But at the same time, our work shows that the capacity of the plasma to neutralise viral particles is going down during those first weeks," Finzi said. The s

With spike of 55,722 cases, India's Covid-19 tally crosses 7.5 million mark

With a spike of 55,722 new COVID-19 cases and 579 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count crossed 7.5 million mark

'Mumbai, Delhi has a third the Covid deaths per million than DC, Madrid'

K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India speaks on the current trajectory of Covid-19 cases in India, treatment and vaccines for the disease

Global Covid-19 cases top 39.8 mn, death toll at 1,112,535: Johns Hopkins

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 7,494,551, while the country's death toll soared to 114,031

Coronavirus LIVE: Community spread only in some districts, says Vardhan

Coronavirus update: Maharashtra has 15,86,321 coronavirus cases, Andhra Pradesh 775,470, Karnataka 751,390, Tamil Nadu 679,191 and UP 449,935. Stay tuned for coronavirus India LIVE update

Living coronavirus detected, isolated on frozen food packaging in China

It is for the first time in the world that living novel coronavirus has been isolated from the outer packaging of cold-chain food

Covid-19 crisis: India may mobilise pharmacists to administer vaccine

30 million health care workers ready for first phase in January

India past the Covid peak, pandemic could run its course by Feb: Govt panel

Total symptomatic infections seen reaching 10.6 million. Study projects 30 per cent of India's population has covid-19 antibodies at present

China extends urgent use of its coronavirus vaccines to three more cities

According to the report, the emergency vaccinations have officially kicked off in Yiwu, an internationally renowned manufacturing hub

Hope of Covid-19 vaccine deployment in UK by New Year, says report

One of the UK's senior-most medical chiefs has indicated that a vaccine against COVID-19 could be ready to be deployed by the start of the New Year, according to a media report on Sunday.

No major mutation observed in SARS-COV 2, shows a pan-India study

A pan-India study by the Biotech dept suggests that A2a strain of SARS-CoV-2 has not undergone any major mutation since June and there is no indication that the vaccine strategy would be hindered.

Second wave of Covid-19 in winters can't be ruled out: Expert panel chief

Paul is heading the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19

Dr Reddy's gets nod for 2/3 vaccine trial; Key updates about the virus

A PMO release said three vaccines are in advanced stages of development in India, out of which two are in Phase II and one is in Phase-III