FILE PHOTO: The word “COVID-19” is reflected in a drop on a syringe needle in this illustration taken November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationBENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian drugmaker Shilpa Medicare Limited said on Friday it had agreed to produce Cadila Healthcare Ltd’s three-dose COVID-19 vaccine. The country’s health authorities had given emergency approval in August for […]
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WHO classifies India variant as being of global concern
WHO classifies India’s ‘double mutant’ Covid a ‘variant of concern’ as its origin country buckles under the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak WHO said Monday that the variant that emerged in India is ‘of concern’ The variant, B.1.617 has three sublineages and is often called the ‘double mutant’ because it has two mutations that help it […]
India overtakes Brazil as second worst-hit COVID-19 country
India on Monday overtook Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections, as it reported a new daily record of more than 168,000 cases. The vast nation of 1.3 billion people has been reporting a rapid increase in new infections in recent weeks, with the surge taking the total toll to 13.5 […]
India bans export of COVID-19 treatment drug remdesivir
India on Sunday banned the export of remdesivir as infections soared to a new daily high and hospitals grappled with increasing demand for the coronavirus treatment drug. The vast nation has experienced a sharp rise in cases in recent weeks, adding 152,000 new cases on Sunday to take the toll to 13.3 million infections. The […]
India records 56,211 new cases of the coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: Villagers wait to receives a dose of COVISHIELD coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, at a primary healthcare centre in Limb village in Satara district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Francis MascarenhasMUMBAI (Reuters) – India recorded 56,211 new cases of coronavirus, a slight dip […]
India sticks to AstraZeneca vaccine ‘with full vigour’
India is not worried about some EU countries suspending use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and will continue to roll out the shot in its huge immunisation programme “with full vigour”, a senior official said Wednesday. The AstraZeneca shots, produced by India’s Serum Institute, account for most of the 35 million coronavirus vaccines administered in […]
India gets affordable drug to treat pulmonary fibrosis, Glenmark Pharma launches generic version of Nintedanib
Glenmark Pharma on Wednesday announced the launch of its generic version of Nintedanib (NINDANIB), used for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis, in India. “Glenmark being a leader in the area of respiratory has been amongst the first to launch the branded generic version at an affordable cost for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis in India,” […]
Coronavirus: Study hints antibody drug may cut Covid-19 hospitalizations
A drug company says that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug give hints that it may help keep mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients from needing to be hospitalized, a goal no current coronavirus medicine has been able to meet. Eli Lilly announced the results Wednesday in a press release, but they […]
Struggles in India, Brazil, US show virus fight far from won
Even as countries moved forward Wednesday with easing their coronavirus restrictions and restarting their economies, a large cluster of infections linked to a market in India and the first lockdown of a major Brazilian city highlighted that the battle against the pandemic was far from won. In the United States, President Donald Trump emphasized his […]
How India’s police is fighting with the red helmets against Corona
A police unit in India has found a special method in the fight against the novel coronavirus: A thematically customized Uniform, you want to show the population that you can catch on the street. This is the residents of the Western Indian city of Surat is the method like. “It felt good, I think, that […]