Coronavirus

 India has leveraged its manufacturing capacity to pre-order 600 million doses of potential Covid-19 vaccine and negotiating for another billion doses, says a new global anaylysis of advance market commitments (AMC) for vaccine candidates…

Health Minister Punjab Balbir Singh Sidhu today launched a special poster depicting the importance of wearing mask to fight COVID-19. This noble cause has been initiated by ‘Sewa Sankalp Society’ through its Vice President High Court Lawyer…

In a major study, researchers have discovered a technique that could help increase the effectiveness of vaccines against the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes Covid-19.Since it began spreading in early 2020, biomedical researchers…

There have been instances of infection among volunteers of Sputnik V trials, the world's first registered vaccine against Covid-19 virus, according to a top official of the developer of the Russian vaccine, said a media report.This is the…

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for use in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older and weighing at least 40 kilograms (about 88 pounds) for the treatment of COVID-19…

In a major breakthrough, researchers including one of Indian-origin have found that tocilizumab drug reduced mortality by 30 per cent among critically ill Covid-19 patients when administered within the first two days of ICU admission.For…

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted approval to Dr Reddy's, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India, to conduct phase 2 and 3 clinical human trials of the Sputnik V, a Covid-19 vaccine made by Russia.On…

Chinese Covid-19 vaccine candidate -- BBIBP-CorV -- that is expected to completely inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is safe and elicits an antibody response, a study published in The Lancet has found.A previous clinical trial reported…

A strain of coronavirus that has devastated the pork industry has the potential to infect humans as well, say researchers, adding that the virus could impact the global economy and human health.The coronavirus strain known as Swine Acute…

 Around 8,000 more cases were seen in the daily spike as 63,509 fresh infection were reported in 24 hours after Tuesday's 55,342, taking the total Covid tally to 72,39,389 on Wednesday.After Tuesday's single-day spike created a sense of a…