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Reuters 2021-05-21 12:18:31
BioNTech SE said on Thursday the Covid-19 vaccine it developed with Pfizer should be roughly as effective against the new coronavirus variant first detected in India as it has been shown to be against...
REUTERS 2021-05-20 17:38:08
COVID-19 vaccines currently being deployed in the fight against the pandemic in Europe appear able to protect against all variants that are circulating and causing concern, the World Health Organisati...
AP 2021-05-17 14:26:14
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline’s potential Covid-19 vaccine triggered strong immune responses in all adult age groups in preliminary trials after an earlier setback, boosting optimism the shot may j...
-- 2021-05-17 12:28:37
Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from...
-- 2021-05-17 12:26:33
The head of UNICEF on Monday asked G7 countries to donate supplies to the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian vaccine expo...
-- 2021-05-15 09:46:32
Wealthier nations should postpone plans to give children and teenagers Covid vaccines and instead donate supplies to low-income countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Te...
-- 2021-05-14 10:26:28
Covid-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question whe...
UNB 2021-05-13 23:11:23
The Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine produced a strong immune response among the recipients, said a study by scientists at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) and...
Reuters 2021-05-13 20:43:36
COVID-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question whe...
-- 2021-05-13 15:20:46
Adults are more likely to report mild and moderate side-effects after mixing doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid vaccines, a study indicates. Chills, headaches and muscle pain were reported...
-- 2021-05-13 10:13:14
A real-world study in Bangladesh has shown that the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus has produced antibodies in 97 per cent of the recipients. Experts, however, still emp...
Reuters 2021-05-12 19:01:15
A new global system should be set up to respond faster to disease outbreaks, which could ensure that no future virus causes a pandemic as devastating as COVID-19, an independent World Health Organizat...
-- 2021-05-12 16:42:58
It was a topsy-turvy time for a Mirpur woman as she found it difficult to go to doctors physically after being tested positive for COVID-10 along with all her family members. Maliha, a resident of Mi...
Reuters 2021-05-12 15:05:07
An analysis of Indonesian healthcare workers inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech showed it was 98 per cent effective at preventing death and 96 per cent effective a...
Reuters 2021-05-11 13:51:11
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. New drug helps...
REUTERS 2021-05-10 20:32:45
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate was safe, well-tolerated and produced immune response against the new coronavirus in a mid-stage clinical trial, sending the drug develop...
-- 2021-05-10 20:21:13
German biotechnology company BioNTech SE said Monday it has chosen Singapore for its first regional hub in the Asia-Pacific region and will also set up a manufacturing facility in the city-state to pr...
BBC 2021-05-09 18:22:35
On Saturday morning, Dr Akshay Nair, a Mumbai-based eye surgeon, was waiting to operate on a 25-year-old woman who had recovered from a bout of Covid-19 three weeks ago. Inside the surgery, an ear, n...
ANI 2021-05-07 17:53:57
A multi-institutional study suggests that prioritising vaccine delivery to older age groups and the medically vulnerable has the greatest impact in minimising loss of life. Strategic vaccine delivery...
-- 2021-05-07 17:19:20
The World Health Organization (WHO) expects news on Friday regarding an emergency use listing for the COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm, a WHO spokesman said, reports Re...
REUTERS 2021-05-06 20:48:52
Novavax Inc said on Thursday it has signed an agreement with the GAVI vaccine alliance to manufacture and distribute 350 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate to countries participating in t...
Reuters 2021-05-06 19:54:27
Germany's CureVac (5CV.DE) is on track to file for European approval of its COVID-19 vaccine as early as this month because high infection rates among trial participants are bringing a read-out on eff...
-- 2021-05-04 16:27:32
The World Health Organisation has listed Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, the agency said on Friday, the fifth to be given the status meant to expedite countries' own approval of shots....
-- 2021-05-04 16:27:00
In a rare move, a Bangladeshi health professional has been appointed as the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the Maldives. Dr Nazneen Anwar, a public health expert with more t...
Rifah Nawar 2021-05-01 21:31:10
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REUTERS 2021-05-01 19:42:38
A forum of scientific advisers set up by the Indian government has told authorities about minor mutations in some samples of the coronavirus that could "possibly evade immune response" and require mor...
-- 2021-05-01 17:43:24
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday listed the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, adding another shot to its arsenal in the fight against the coronavirus. According to The Hill,...
-- 2021-05-01 16:28:09
The Serum Institute of India (SII), which manufactures the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, is planning to start vaccine production in other countries as it struggles to meet supply commitments. "There'...
-- 2021-04-30 21:09:44
Amid devastations in populous countries India and Brazil, the number of coronavirus cases worldwide has crossed a grim mark of 150 million after the first COVID-19 case was detected in China more than...
REUTERS 2021-04-30 20:51:00
A very small number of mainly frail, elderly COVID-19 patients are being hospitalised and dying even after having a first dose of Pfizer's or AstraZeneca's vaccines, but this does not mean the shots a...
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