Validated and approved by ICMR and the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, Cipla's ELIfast is found to have specificity and sensitivity of 99.33 per cent and 92 per cent, respectively

Coronavirus vaccine news: Britain will help fund trials using a manufactured COVID-19 virus to deliberately infect young healthy volunteers with the hope of accelerating the development of vaccines against it

AstraZeneca's large, late-stage U.S. trial has been on hold since Sept. 6, after a participant in the company's UK trial fell ill

Speaking during The Wall Street Journal's annual Tech Live conference on October 19, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said if satisfactory interim results from the study take longer to get, government authorisation of the COVID-19 vaccine may not happen until early next year

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Presently, there are around 40 different coronavirus vaccines in various stages of human clinical trials, comprising one being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, which is already in an advanced stage of testing

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Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, is currently being evaluated in a global Phase 3 study ongoing at more than 120 clinical sites worldwide including the United States, Brazil, South Africa and Argentina

The WHO said that the Solidarity trial looked at the effects of these treatments on overall mortality, initiation of ventilation, and duration of hospital stay in hospitalised patients

According to World Health Organisation's chief scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan said, health workers, elderly and frontline workers might get the COVID-19 vaccine first, though the prioritisation details are still being worked out by the WHO

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Cipla's research and development department is working on a couple of therapies that can be used in the treatment of COVID-19 and it could consider entering into marketing collaborations with companies that are currently developing vaccines for COVID-19

Several European countries have said they are experiencing shortages of the drug, whose global stock has been secured almost entirely by the United States

Donald Trump, who was admitted at Walter Reed National Military Medical centre on Friday, had received \"a single 8-gram dose\" of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody cocktail

The Treasury and Health Departments developed economic modelling based on an assumption that a vaccine would be widely available in Australia toward the end of next year, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said

The FDA released the guidance laying out more stringent recommendations for drugmakers hoping to apply for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for their experimental vaccines

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has pledged that career scientists, not politicians, will decide whether any coronavirus vaccine meets clearly stated standards that it works and is safe

In general experts seem to believe that a publicly available vaccine next summer is the best-case scenario with the possibility that it may take until 2022

Coronavirus vaccine update: In India, there are three COVID-19 vaccines under human trials--Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN, Oxford's COVDSHIELD, and Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D. Serum Institute has already begun a phase-3 trial of Oxford vaccine candidates at 17 sites

AstraZeneca's large, late-stage U.S. trial has remained on hold since Sept. 6, after a study participant in Britain fell ill with what was believed to be a rare spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis