An official statement from the PMO said the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting will convene this year virtually from October 19 to 21, bringing together policymakers and science leaders

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) raised questions on Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan's move to promote yoga and Ayurvedic herbs for prevention of coronavirus infection; Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the annual Invest India Conference in Canada, hard sold his government's latest agriculture, labour reforms; The World Bank projected a steeper contraction in India's economy by 9.6 per cent this fiscal in light of COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: TCS pips Accenture to become world's most-valuable IT services firm

Eli Lilly, Gates Foundation sign deal to supply COVID-19 drugs to low, middle-income countriesEli Lilly and Co said on Thursday it had entered into an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for potential supply of its experimental antibody treatments for COVID-19 to low and middle-income countries. As part of the deal, Lilly said it will make antibody therapies available to lower-income countries prior to April 2021, but did not elaborate on the number of doses. Separately, F...

Lilly had previously said it would make one million doses of its single antibody treatment available by the end of the year

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The two countries argue that in the absence of a waiver, existing protection for intellectual property rights such as patents, industrial designs, copyright and protection of undisclosed information, may create barriers to timely access to affordable medical products

They state that access to means to fight COVID-19 on a global scale requires financial resources, assets, infrastructure, and jurisdictional support and collaboration beyond the capacity or role of each one of them

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The vaccines will have a ceiling price of US$3 per dose, thanks to investments made by partners such as the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Coronavirus vaccine: In August, the SII entered into a partnership with Gavi (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation), and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to produce 100 million (10 crore) doses for India and LMICs

The government is going to assess efficacy data of all concerned companies (working on COVID-19 vaccines) before inking a purchase contract with them and will buy vaccines at least for essential workers

Gargee Ghosh leads discussions on behalf of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Recognising his father's \"quiet influence\" on almost everything Bill Gates did in life, he said in Microsoft's early years, he turned to his father at key moments to seek his legal counsel

In India, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with Serum Institute to ramp up the manufacturing and delivery of coronavirus vaccines

Because of COVID-19, extreme poverty has increased by 7%, and routine vaccine coverage - a good proxy measure for how health systems are functioning - is dropping to levels last seen in the 1990s

The 2020 Forbes list of 400 Richest People in America has been topped by Bezos, 56 who has a net worth of USD 179 billion and has occupied the spot of the richest person in the US for the third year in a row

\"AstraZeneca has paused the trials due to some unrelated issue with a patient in the UK, and we'll have to wait for AstraZeneca to explain what happened but this is not vaccine-related,\" says Poonawalla

Adar Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India had signed a deal with British-Swedish pharma company AstraZeneca to manufacture the potential vaccine developed by the Jenner Institute of Oxford University

Bill Gates in a blog post notes about questions he has been asking himself as a teenager for every situation.

COVID-19 vaccine update: The expert group of the committee, headed by Dr. VK Paul, is also in contact with domestic as well as multinational vaccine makers to understand how soon a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready