Corona Outbreak

Governments seeking to purchase Moderna's potential Covid-19 vaccine may have to shell out $25 and $37 per dose, depending on the size of the order, the company's CEO Stephane Bancel told German weekly 'Welt am Sonntag' (WamS).Bancel said…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use approval to the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals antibody treatment which was given to President Donald Trump after he was diagnosed with Covid-19.The emergency use authorisation…

Pfizer announced Friday it is seeking emergency approval from US regulators for its Covid-19 vaccine, which has shown 95 percent efficacy in a totality of two data sets released in the last 10 days. The chief of the Trump administration's…

Biological E. Ltd (BE), a Hyderabad-based vaccines and pharmaceutical company, on Monday announced that it has initiated clinical trial of its Covid-19 subunit vaccine candidate in the country following approval from the Drugs Controller…

 Even as India's first indigenous coronavirus vaccine Covaxin is entering its third phase of human trials, Bharat Biotech on Monday raised the logistical query on "how to vaccinate 1.3 billion (130 crore) people with two injectable doses.…

Authorities in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, found that three frozen beef samples tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, local health authorities have said.The batch of products dispersed in 1,006 boxes, weighing 27…

Canada reported 3,041 new cases of Covid-19 Saturday noon, bringing the total up to 2,90,596 cases, including 10,888 deaths, according to media reports.Ontario reported 1,581 new cases on Saturday, marking another new record in…

Another 26,860 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 13,44,356, according to official figures released on Saturday.The coronavirus-related deaths in Britain…

Russia has confirmed a record number of 22,702 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 19,03,253, the country's Covid-19 response centre said in a statement Saturday.Meanwhile, 391 new deaths were reported, taking the…

 An international team of researchers has revealed that self-reports of smell and taste changes provide earlier markers of the spread of infection of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus.The study, published in the journal Nature Communications,…