9.01 am : A national sero-survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research indicates that 0.73% adults in India were exposed to S...
9.01 am: A national sero-survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research indicates that 0.73% adults in India were exposed to SARS-CoV-2, amounting to a total of 64 lakh coronavirus infections by early May, PTI reports.
The survey, which was published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, was conducted from May 11 to June 4 and covered 28,000 individuals whose blood samples were tested for IgG antibodies.
8.20 am: “It’s a race against this virus, and it’s a race to save lives. It’s not a race between companies, and it’s not a race between countries,” says WHO’s head of emergencies Mike Ryan on the pause of AstraZeneca’s trial.
8.15 am: World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan says AstraZeneca’s pause of the trial of the “Oxford vaccine” should not discourage researchers and must instead be taken as a wake up call, Reuters reports.
“This is a wake-up call to recognise that there are ups and downs in clinical development and that we have to be prepared,” Swaminathan says. “We do not have to be discouraged. These things happen.”
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Tuesday said it has paused late-stage trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine after a study participant developed an unexplained illness. The “Oxford vaccine” has been...
