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

While experts have predicted that a shot will likely take 12-18 months to develop, vaccines are seen by world leaders as the only real way to restart their stalled economies after months of sweeping lockdown

COVID-19 vaccine latest status: Researchers across the world are of the opinion that it will take another 14-18 months to get access to a potent coronavirus drug

State public health expenditure is just 1 per cent of GDP. The time to invest in healthcare is now

Glenmark study will examine whether early administration of a combination of Favipiravir and Umifenovir, both acting by different mechanisms, enhances antiviral efficacy on COVID-19 patients

Research on a COVID-19 vaccine in India is at a very early stage of development and candidates are likely to reach animal trials only by the end of the year, says leading virologist Shahid Jameel

Serum Institute has partnered with U.S. biotech firm Codagenix, its U.S. rival Novavax and Austria's Themis to potentially manufacture three COVID-19 vaccine candidates that are still in development

Though the government's SAUBHAGYA scheme claims to have provided connections to 100 per cent households, that is not sufficient. Under this scheme, the beneficiary households were provided only one LED light and one power plug, says Shailendra Roy

Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker India news live updates: Delhi recorded 660 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest one-day jump in the national capital. Delhi's total count of coronavirus positive cases now stands at 11,659. India's total count of confirmed coronavirus cases spiked to 1,18,447 on Friday, according to Union Health Ministry

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

India and the United States, are working on a trade deal for the past two years. Last September, President Donald Trump had announced that it was likely to be signed soon

According to the guidance issued on Wednesday, the ICMR stated these tests can be done on blood/serum/plasma samples, the results of which are available within 30 minutes and the test comes positive after 7-10 days of infection

Coronavirus vaccine: China's CanSino Biologics is working with Canada's National Research Council to find a vaccine while Japan expects to start clinical trials of COVID vaccine in July

Coronavirus crisis: Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific adviser to the Government of India said that India is well on course to find a vaccine and have a corona vaccine the next 8 months

Coronavirus India live updates: The Supreme Court (SC) will reopen its court premises and resume work from the courtrooms from next week. However, the lawyers will argue cases from their chamber, said sources. The total count of confirmed COVID-19 cases jumped to 70,756 on Tuesday, as per the Union Health Ministry

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

So far, Mylab Discovery Solutions was producing kits for about 20,000 tests per day. Mylab has already manufactured 6.5 lakh tests and has supplied tests to 140 sites including labs and hospitals in over 20 states of India

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

Regulatory agencies have fast-tracked the vaccine development, which normally takes 7-10 years to reach the market

Union Home Ministry said it has found that there have been tremendous gains and improvement in the COVID-19 situation due to the lockdown till now