Sushant Singh Rajput was top trending in June on Google Search in India
The top trending topic in India over June was Sushant Singh Rajput and the interest for the late actor spiked sharply on June 14 to...
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We are very close to a vaccine: Trump
Washington, April 24 (IANS) US President Donald Trump while addressing the daily White House coronavirus briefing said “we are very close to a vaccine”, after...
First patients injected in UK vaccine trial
London, April 24 (IANS) The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of...
2 Italian companies could put COVID-19 vaccine in human trials in September
Rome, April 23 (IANS) Potential COVID-19 vaccines being developed by two private research laboratories outside of Rome could enter into a testing phase as soon...
Vaccine could be available this year, says UK scientist
London, April 23 (IANS) Two scientists who are leading the charge for a vaccine in the UK have been speaking about their projects. Professor Sarah...
Serum Institute to commence human trials for corona vaccine by Sept-Oct: Adar Poonawalla (IANS Exclusive)
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) In an exclusive interview with IANS, Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India (SII), has said that SII...
Oxford University vaccine in human trials from Thursday: UK Health Secretary
London, April 21 (IANS) The UK government on Tuesday announced that the human trial of a potential COVID-19 candidate vaccine being developed by researchers at...
Stock market to bottom only after corona vaccine or cure: Nilesh Shah
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The stock market will bottom only when a medical breakthrough in a vaccine or cure comes for the novel Coronavirus,...
ICMR bats for Oxford vaccine, WHO lists 3 more as frontrunners
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday said that a candidate vaccine called ChAdOX1 a” being developed by...
Vaccine emerges as frontrunner to combat novel coronavirus
New Delhi, April 19 (ICMR) The Indian Council of Medical Research on Sunday said that vaccines developed or observed for the novel coronavirus by five...
‘Olympics in 2021 unrealistic unless COVID-19 vaccine found’
London, April 19 (IANS) Holding the Tokyo Olympics any time before a vaccine is found will be “very unrealistic,” according to a leading global health...
No guarantee coronavirus vaccine will be developed: WHO envoy
London, April 19 (IANS) The World Health Organization (WHO) special envoy David Nabarro has warned that there is no guarantee that a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine...
Centre: Working on vaccine development; 10 lakh RT-PCR kits to be ready by May
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The Union Health Ministry said Indian scientists and researchers are working on vaccine development and that by next month, 10...
Aus company to begin 1st human trial of COVID-19 vaccine
Canberra, April 16 (IANS) An Australian company has called out for volunteers in the country’s first human trial of a COVID-19 vaccine, expected to take...
Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline join hands to speed up COVID-19 vaccine
London, April 14 (IANS) Pharmaceutical giants Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on Tuesday joined hands to speed up and develop an adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19 disease....
No evidence suggests BCG vaccine can protect against COVID-19: WHO
Geneva, April 14 (IANS) There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, which is primarily used against tuberculosis, protects people against infection with...
MERS vaccine may hold promise for COVID-19 prevention
New York, April 8 (IANS) Researchers have developed a vaccine that fully protects mice against a lethal dose of MERS, a close cousin of the...
Hyderabad firm, Australian varsity to develop Covid-19 vaccine
Hyderabad, April 7 (IANS) A Hyderabad-based vaccine maker and an Australian university have joined forces to develop a prophylatic, active, single-dose immunisation against coronavirus. In...
Second potential COVID-19 vaccine in US starts safety test
Washington, April 7 (IANS) A second US company is poised to begin safety test of a vaccine against COVID-19. Inovio Pharmaceuticals said on Monday that...
Kartik Aaryan dreams of getting coronavirus vaccine
Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) Actor Kartik Aaryan has been unleashing his humorous side amidst coronavirus lockdown. On Sunday, he posted a video that shows him...