COVID-19 vaccine: About 19 vaccines are going to be globally available in the coming few weeks and months. Of this, about nine have already got emergency use authorisation

COVID-19 vaccine: Pakistan, which is seeing rising numbers of coronavirus infections, said its vaccines would be procured from multiple sources

Among these vaccines are those developed by Zydus Cadila, Biological E and Gennova, along with Russia's Sputnik-V vaccine

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Full authorisation-better known as \"full pre-qualification\"-is a pre-requisite to sell the vaccine in the open market or for mass immunisation of healthy individuals who are not frontline workers

Critics have said that the country's immunisation campaign is running behind its regional peers and have questioned why the government has not moved more swiftly

The world's second-largest economy is likely to grow 7.9% in 2021, accelerating from expected 1.9% growth in 2020, the IMF said in the conclusion of its annual economic consultation with China

Dr Tao Lina said on the Chinese social media platform Weibo that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinopharm, which is a Chinese state-run company, is extremely unsafe for use

Bharat Biotech chairman Krishna Ella says this nasal vaccine will revolutionise Indian vaccine making capabilities and help it leapfrog along with Europe, the US and China

Dr Krishna Ella, Chairman of Bharat Biotech, said that unlike the clinical trials of AstraZeneca vaccine (which has been licensed to Serum Institute of India), Bharat Biotech did not try to suppress the side effects of vaccine by giving paracetamol to the volunteers. He also said that for his company safety came first. Watch him in conversation with Rajeev Dubey, Editor, Business Today.Also Read: China denies entry to WHO team investigating COVID-19 origins

Governments are introducing new lockdown measures to halt the spread while facing massive demand for vaccines which are seen as the best way out of the global health crisis

Coronavirus vaccine: China has not done any efficacy trials, Russia also has not done any efficacy trials. We are doing efficacy trials on 26,000 people in the third phase, he said

India on Sunday granted emergency approval to Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN but faced questions after taking the step without publishing efficacy data for the homegrown coronavirus vaccine

The researchers said this demonstrates 94.1 per cent efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, adding that cases of severe disease occurred only in participants who received the placebo

The result is based on interim analysis of data from its Phase III clinical trial

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Brazil is the first country to complete a late-stage trial of the vaccine, called CoronaVac, but a release of the results, first set for early December, has now been delayed three times

Spokespeople for Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have said that pork products are not part of their COVID-19 vaccines. But limited supply and preexisting deals worth millions of dollars with other companies means that some countries with large Muslim populations, such as Indonesia, will receive vaccines that have not yet been certified to be gelatin-free

Researchers said over half (51 per cent) of these doses will go to high income countries, which represent 14 per cent of the world's population

The deal comes in a week that AstraZeneca said it was conducting further research to confirm whether its COVID-19 vaccine could be 90% effective, potentially slowing its rollout, and as a rival shot from Pfizer was launched in Britain and approved for use in the United States