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India's Shilpa Medicare to produce Cadila's COVID-19 shot

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]