Lilly is also doing preclinical studies of a third antibody treatment for the illness caused by the new coronavirus that could enter human clinical trials in the coming weeks, Chief Scientific Officer Daniel Skovronsky said

Coronavirus vaccine update: Johnson and Johnson has said that it has pushed up clinical trials by two months; Japanese biotech company AnGes Inc expects its coronavirus vaccine to be ready by the first half of 2021 if production and supply goes smoothly

Mumbai-based Transasia Bio Medicals, the largest domestic laboratory diagnostics maker, has set up a factory at Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone in Visakhapatnam to manufacture various COVID-19 diagnostic kits

COVID 19 Vaccine News India: The government has now permitted a few relaxations to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940

The experimental treatment, LY-CoV555, has been developed through collaboration with privately held AbCellera Biologics, which Lilly partnered with in March

Coronavirus vaccine update: The national science laboratories in India are working on six COVID-19 vaccine candidates, out of which the government is very hopeful about two to three

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Highlights: Sikkim, the only state in India to be coronavirus-free up until now, has reported its first COVID-19 confirmed case on Saturday

US-based biotechnology company Moderna on Monday said the preliminary findings of its test for coronavirus vaccine development have shown \"favourable\" results; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has published research showing that a prototype vaccine effectively protected monkeys from infection with virus

Researchers at Peking University believe it can take about six months before drug is ready for use; after the animal stage, planning for a clinical trial is going on in full swing 

Shares of Moderna soared 39 per cent in premarket trading after the biotech announced positive interim data from a phase 1 clinical study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine

Coronavirus vaccine news: Leaders from around 140 countries wrote to the World Health Assembly (WHA) stating that a corona vaccine should not be patented and made available for everyone for free

Mumbai-based medical devices company Transasia Biomedical's German subsidiary Erba Mannheim has already got clearance from the US and Europe to make COVID-19 antibody ELISA kits

The Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology, Pune, technology has been transferred to Zydus Cadila for mass-scale production

Coronavirus Live Updates: The Prime Minister also mentioned efforts needed to address 'jan se jag tak' - from people to world, adding that the world will change after the coronavirus crisis, as it did after the two World Wars

Globally, efforts are underway to develop a vaccine to treat Covid 19 which has stalled economic activity and led to death of over 2.77 lakh people across the world

Coronavirus vaccine: World leaders and organisations, except the United States, have already pledged $8 billion to research, manufacture and distribute a possible vaccine and treatments for COVID-19 apart from the individual efforts taken by the countries and its pharmaceutical firms

United States has been worst affected nation with 72,275 deaths, followed by the UK, Italy and Spain; as spread of coronavirus shows no sign of slowing down, researchers and various governments are doubling efforts to develop a vaccine

After mice were injected the vaccines, they produced antibodies that can also block coronavirus from infecting humans; scientists claim vaccine candidates can also adapt to COVID-19 evolution and mutations

Israel was among the first few countries to close its borders and impose stringent restrictions on movement to hamper the domestic coronavirus outbreak

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