Vaccinations are the safest way to acquire herd immunity. This would only work when the majority of the population is vaccinated

Expect domestic air passenger traffic to return pre-COVID level by 2022-23, says ICRAExpecting domestic air passenger traffic to return to the pre-COVID-19 level by the financial year 2022-23 and international by 2023-24, rating agency ICRA on Monday said there could be a delay in the commercialisation of expanded capacity by 9-12 months. ICRA also said the cargo volumes are likely to grow around 36 per cent in 2021-22 and six per cent in 2022-23 after a 25 per cent contraction this fiscal, ...

The world's singular focus right now should be to keep transmission of COVID-19 as low as possible, said Dr. Michael Ryan, director of WHO's emergencies program

\"People are dying in poor countries,\" Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, new chief of WTO, said on her first day in office

China has given conditional approval for a single dose COVID-19 vaccine, touted to be a rival to Johnson & Johnson's one-jab shot cleared by the US drug regulator

\"If a mutation or variant of the virus comes in, by the time we open our summer schedule by April we will have our full pre-COVID-19 level of domestic traffic or even higher,\" says Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri

Located in the city of Pune in Maharashtra, the SII is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume

Serum delivered 600,000 doses of Covishield vaccines from Pune to Accra in Ghana. The vaccines arrived on a flight from Mumbai, via Dubai, where the flight also collected a shipment of syringes from a Gavi-funded stockpile at UNICEF's regional supply hub

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

The basis of share allotment is expected to be finalised on March 2 and shares are likely to be credited to Demat accounts of investors on March 4. Equity shares are proposed to be listed on BSE and National Stock Exchange

Stock Market News Updates Today: Global equities were buoyed today as positive macroeconomic data flow and hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine boosted investor sentiment

Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry

Dr Ramesh Bharmal, dean of the hospital, said that the doctor tested positive last week but now he has recovered from the infection and is expected to join work soon

Coronavirus vaccine: The Covid-19 vaccine candidate of Novavax is being studied in two ongoing pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials: in the United States and Mexico, as well as in the United Kingdom

Biden will also encourage G-7 partners to make good on their pledges to COVAX, an initiative by the World Health Organization to improve access to vaccines, according to a senior administration official

The $9-billion US-based Air Products, the world's leading industrial gases company, has extensive operations in India. Industrial gases are an integral raw material in energy, hydrocarbons and chemicals

Retail prices of heavily taxed gasoline and gasoil in India have touched record highs due to the spurt in global prices

To emerge stronger, it is important for us as a country to bridge the gap between policy announcements and their implementation by strengthening and empowering institutions to bolster economic growth

\"People still need basic shelter, certainly in developing countries\", says Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft Corp

The virtual meeting will be the first hosted by Johnson as part of the UK's G7 Presidency this year and the first gathering of G7 leaders since April 2020