National Health Service (NHS) Secretary Amir Ashraf Khawaja while briefing the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday said that the Pakistan government has no plan to buy vaccines anytime soon

Biological E has tied up with vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. And, it plans to start the Phase 3 trial of the candidate licensed from Baylor College next week

Russia has already approved two COVID-19 vaccines, Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona, which were also granted approval before seeing any late-stage trial results

As part of the review process, Dr Reddy's will present the safety profile of the phase 2 study, and interim data of the phase 3 study, which is expected to complete by 21st February 2021.

With no relief in sight from incessant rise in petrol and diesel prices, people turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations on the matter; The central government is set to notify the rules under new labour codes, which will have an impact on employees' cost to company (CTC) as well as employers' wage bills; Vaccination drive against COVID-19 and improving economic indicators have enthused employers to recruit. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Amazon to manufacture Fire TV Stick in India from this year

COVID-19 vaccine: The AstraZeneca-Oxford product is a viral vectored vaccine called ChAdOx1-S [recombinant], which is being produced at several manufacturing sites, as well as in the Republic of Korea and India

Earlier, Dr Reddy's had said it expects to roll out Sputnik V vaccine in India in March via Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) after the completion of Phase 3 trials.

Earlier, The Lancet had stated that Russia's experimental COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V is 91.6 per cent affective against coronavirus infection. These results are based on Phase 3 trials of the vaccine in which 20,000 people had participated

Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy in phase 3 trials with no serious side effects, as per an interim analysis published in The Lancet Journal; Oxford Languages has named 'Aatmanirbharta' as its Hindi Word of the Year 2020; Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been delisted from \"Chinese entrepreneurial leaders\" list published by the country's official state media. Watch this and more on News Blast. Also Read: RBI releases framework for risk-based internal audit of NBFCs, UCBs

Bharat Biotech will supply initial doses to be used in the US upon Ocugen's receipt of an EUA from the US regulatory authorities

The pharma stock touched an intraday high of Rs 4,759.1 rising 6.13% against previous close of Rs 4,484.25 on BSE

Oxford Languages names 'Aatmanirbharta' as Hindi Word of 2020 Oxford Languages has named 'Aatmanirbharta' as its Hindi Word of the Year 2020. The word gained significance after Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised on 'Aatmanirbharta' (self-reliance) as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. According to the dictionary publisher, 'Aatmanirbharta' was chosen as it \"validated the day-to-day achievements of the countless Indians who dealt with and survived the perils of a pandemic\"...

India Stock Market News Updates Today: IndusInd Bank, followed by Dr Reddy's, PowerGrid, Tech Mahindra, M&M, Sun Pharma and Axis Bank were among the top gainers. On the other hand, Maruti, Kotak Bank, SBI and UltraTech Cement were among the losers

The Gam-COVID-Vac, called Sputnik V, is a two-part vaccine that includes two adenovirus vectors - recombinant human adenovirus type 26 (rAd26-S) and recombinant human adenovirus type 5 (rAd5-S).

The dosing mishap was presented to the trial participants in a letter dated June 8 as an opportunity for University of Oxford researchers to learn how well the vaccine works at different doses

Serum in its reply stated that both the companies operate in different product categories and there is no scope for confusion over the trademark

Coronavirus vaccine: J&J plans to seek emergency use authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration next week. It has said it plans to deliver 1 billion doses in 2021 and will produce the vaccine in the United States, Europe, South Africa and India

According to the ministry, 213 adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs) were reported till 7 pm on Friday

The government has given a go-ahead to a local pharmaceutical company for the import and distribution of the Russia-developed Sputnik V, the Dawn newspaper quoted an official as saying

Chanchal, 80, had been admitted to the hospital since November 27 and stayed there as his condition kept worsening. Besides, popular bhajans, he had also sung a few songs for Bollywood movies