So far, the Pfizer-BioNTtech and Moderna vaccines, made through a novel platform technology never used in humans before, are proven to have maximum efficacy

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

A total of 327 students belonging to Akola, Amravati, Buldhana, Hingoli, Nanded, and Washim live in this hostel

The findings of the study become significant as in many parts of the world, mutant variants of the virus are causing a new surge in COVID-19 cases. The current increase in the number of infections in some Indian states may also be due to the presence of virus variants, it is feared

The company, which has its labs in England, had in early September 2020 received the approval from the Drug Controller General (DCGI) to conduct the phase 2 clinical trial of GPP-Baladol in patients with moderate infection of the pandemic with oxygen support

Patanjali had rolled out Coronil for treating novel coronavirus on June 23 in the presence of Union ministers Harsh Vardhan and Nitin Gadkari

The findings of their study, published in Biochemistry, the peer-review Journal of the American Chemical Society, say that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of the antiviral drug against the HIV virus

The vaccines currently approved for emergency use in India are Covishield, from the Oxford-AstraZeneca stable manufactured by Pune's Serum Institute of India, and Covaxin, developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology (NIV)

Johnson said he would be keen to agree a global treaty on pandemics where countries agreed to share data, amid British and US concern over access given to a World Health Organization (WHO) mission to China

His sample was collected on Sunday night and sent for RT-PCR test which came out to be positive for COVID-19

The White House on Saturday called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the novel coronavirus outbreak, saying it had \"deep concerns\" about the way the findings of the WHO's COVID-19 report were communicated

In December last year, Sanofi had said it was targeting \"earliest potential approval\" of the shot in the second half of 2021, following positive preclinical data

Jawahar Singh decided to dress up as Yamraj to spread the message of taking the COVID-19 jab without hesitation among the frontline workers. Singh was administered the vaccine at a government hospital in Indore

LG Tone HBS-FN7 review: The wirreless earbuds come with UV light for sanitisation that kills bacteria from the speaker mesh in ten minutes. It works when the buds are placed in the case and the latter is put on charge

The research, published in the journal Nature Medicine, noted that the vaccine is effective against coronavirus variants carrying the N501Y and E484K mutations

Oxford University scientists who developed the ChAdOx1-nCoV19 vaccine have found that it remains effective against at least one of the new variants of the disease, called the B.1.1.7 'Kent' coronavirus strain

The study, published in the journal Science of The Total Environment, noted that the southern Chinese Yunnan province and neighbouring regions in Myanmar and Laos form a global hotspot of climate change-driven increase in bat richness

The total cases reached 1,08,14,304 with 11,713 new cases in a day; national recovery rate reached 97.19 per cent on Saturday

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, posted in the preprint repository medRxiv, assessed the antibody responses in 109 individuals with and without documented pre-existing immunity to the novel coronavirus

Budget 2021: Considered to be the lifeline of the country, Railways saw several firsts in 2020 such as passenger operations coming to a halt due to coronavirus pandemic, management restructuring, and kick-starting the process of privatising passenger trains among others