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How would COVID-19 vaccine makers adapt to variants?

AP 2021-02-25 19:01:10

Viruses constantly mutate as they spread, and most changes aren't significant. First-generation COVID-19 vaccines appear to be working against today's variants, but makers already are taking steps to...

Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine works well

Reuters 2021-02-24 20:35:40

The one-shot coronavirus vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson provides strong protection against severe disease and death from COVID-19, and may reduce the spread of the virus by vaccinated people, a...

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shows 95 pct efficacy, eligible for youths

Yonhap 2021-02-23 22:40:05

A South Korean panel of experts said Tuesday that vaccines for the novel coronavirus by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc showed a more than 95 per cent efficacy rate, and the use of the vaccine...

French researchers trial more accurate fast COVID-19 test

Reuters 2021-02-23 20:06:22

French researchers are using tiny antibody particles extracted from the family of animals that includes camels and llamas to produce a test they say can detect if patients have COVID-19 faster and mor...

Vaccine-takers’ rush overwhelms health authorities

Jubair Hasan 2021-02-23 08:08:42

The rush for getting Covid-19 jabs has put the state-run Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in difficulty in issuing vaccine schedules, officials have admitted. Wait of the people for in...

Study suggests Pfizer, Oxford vaccines highly effective against coronavirus

-- 2021-02-22 20:02:48

Scotland’s vaccination drive appears to be markedly reducing the risk of hospitalisation for COVID-19, suggesting that both the Pfizer-BioNtech and Oxford-AstraZeneca shots are highly effective...

GSK, Sanofi start new clinical trial of protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate

-- 2021-02-22 19:45:59

GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi on Monday said they had started a new clinical trial of their protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, reviving their efforts against the pandemic after a setback in Decemb...

WHO believes badgers, rabbits could have spread COVID-19 to humans

-- 2021-02-19 17:06:38

World Health Organization (WHO) experts investigating the pandemic's origins suggest that ferret badgers and rabbits, which were sold at a Wuhan market in China, could have played a role in spreading...

130 countries haven't received single Covid-19 vaccine dose, UN says

-- 2021-02-18 17:52:30

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (local time) slammed the "wildly uneven and unfair" distribution of coronavirus vaccines and said that only 10 countries have administered 75 per cen...

WHO gives emergency use approval to AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-02-16 14:00:13

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the green light to two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, allowing them to be rolled out globally via COVAX. The two...

Oxford University to test vaccine response among children

Reuters 2021-02-13 17:13:21

The University of Oxford has launched a study to assess the safety and immune response of the COVID-19 vaccine it has developed with AstraZeneca Plc in children for the first time, it said on Saturday...

All hypotheses still open in probe into virus origins: WHO

-- 2021-02-13 10:33:36

All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organization’s search for the origins of COVID-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Friday. A WHO-led mission...

Global vaccination strategy 'self-defeating': UNICEF-WHO joint statement

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-11 15:10:51

Of the 128 million vaccine doses administered so far, more than three quarters of those vaccinations are in just 10 countries that account for 60 per cent of global GDP, UNICEF Executive Director Henr...

Two masks protect better than one!

-- 2021-02-11 11:41:37

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. Two masks likel...

WHO's Wuhan probe concludes, US-China disputing over Covid continues

REUTERS 2021-02-10 17:33:21

China called on the United States on Wednesday to invite the World Health Organization to investigate origins of the Covid-19 outbreak there, as sparring over the pandemic continued after the WHO wrap...

‘Lab leak very unlikely as COVID source’

Reuters 2021-02-09 20:33:43

The head of the World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19, Peter Ben Embarek, said on Tuesday that it was “very unlikely” that a leak from a labor...

WHO official sees possibility of cold-chain transmission of coronavirus

REUTERS 2021-02-09 18:22:43

The head of the World Health Organization-led team in the central Chinese city of Wuhan probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that cold-chain transmission of the virus is possible and warran...

New DARPin drugs show promise

Reuters 2021-02-07 10:52:50

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 “DARP...

25pc children in India may have Covid antibodies, finds study

Reuters 2021-02-04 20:49:20

India survey finds a quarter of children may have COVID antibodies, more than average More than a quarter of Indian children aged between 10 and 17 may have already contracted COVID-19, according to...

Serum Institute will supply 1.1b vaccine doses to COVAX scheme

-- 2021-02-03 20:41:11

India's Serum Institute will supply 1.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Novavax to the COVAX vaccine scheme as part of a new long-term deal, the head of the UN Children...

Vaccine distribution plan under COVAX scheme to be published soon

-- 2021-02-03 19:30:05

Figures for the doses of COVID-19 vaccines being allocated mainly to 92 low- and middle-income countries by June from the international COVAX scheme will be published on Wednesday, agencies said. In...

AstraZeneca, Oxford expect 'next generation' vaccine

-- 2021-02-03 19:03:46

AstraZeneca and University of Oxford aim to produce the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines that will ensure protection against variants as soon as the autumn, a senior executive at the British drugm...

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine 91.6pc effective in late-stage trial

Reuters 2021-02-02 20:10:58

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6 per cent effective in preventing people from developing Covid-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published in The Lancent int...

Breast cancer now more common than lung, WHO says

-- 2021-02-02 19:01:18

Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. “For the first time, breast cancer now constitutes the most common...

Bangladeshi researchers find new corona variant

FE Report 2021-02-02 10:19:05

A group of Bangladeshi researchers claimed to have discovered a new variant of coronavirus in the country. The new variant, which continues to mutate like influenza virus, has similarities with a v...

Oxford kept COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteers in dark about dosing error

Reuters 2021-02-01 20:52:02

About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose, but weren't informed that a mistake had been made after the b...

Scientists figure out how coronavirus so quickly damages lung cells

-- 2021-01-31 21:55:25

Following months of interdisciplinary research assessing tens of thousands of lung cells infected with the novel coronavirus, scientists have created one of the most comprehensive maps to date of the...

Two silent-killer daily life habits  

Imtiaz Ahmed   2021-01-31 20:44:16

There might be much routine work that is not at all beneficial for our body and mind. These things have become a part of our life almost unconsciously. But have we ever really thought about how somet...

Leprosy still infects 4,000 people every year in Bangladesh

-- 2021-01-31 20:34:58

About 4,000 fresh leprosy cases are being detected every year in Bangladesh and almost eight per cent of the patients suffer from leprosy-related disability, according to a document from Leprosy &...

‘Coronake Korobo Joy’ campaign held in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2021-01-31 20:25:08

An awareness campaign titled ‘Coronake Korobo Joy’ was held at Shilkhali High School under Pekua upazila of Cox's Bazar on Friday. NeoSTAR Innovation under its e-health programme launched...