Bharat Biotech will be manufacturing up to a billion doses of a COVID-19 vaccine which is expected to be cheaper than other vaccines in development. Bharat Biotech, headquartered in Hyderabad, has obtained the rights for a novel chimp-adenovirus vaccine for COVID-19, jointly with US-based biotech firm Precision Virologics. The vaccine is being developed by the ...

With the last phase (Unlock 4) of post-pandemic reopening of the economy coming to an end on September 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the chief ministers of seven states that are worst affected by COVID-19. On Wednesday, chief ministers of Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab ...

As India lost thousands to the pandemic outbreak and many to hunger .caused by loss of job and loss of economic growth coupled, Congress MP Shahi Tharoor hit out at Narendra Modi led government in the Centre for its “utter mismanagement” of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Referring to the country’s deteriorating growth and escalating virus ...

Feluda is an indigenous kit that utilizes CRISPR gene-editing technology to distinguish and find the genetic material of Sars-CoV2, which causes Coronavirus. It has been endorsed by the legislature of India.  Feluda (test kit) has been created by senior scientists Dr. Souvik Maiti and Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute ...

Latest serological survey conducted in Delhi revealed one in three or 33% of the population has developed antibodies against coronavirus. The initial analysis of third sero survey included surveillance of 17,000 samples which had been collected from 11 districts. The official outcome of survey is to be announced next week. As per the survey out ...

The Serum Institute of India which had paused the trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been allowed to restart them. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has allowed the Serum Institute of India (SII) to continue testing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after it had been suspended on September 11, following an unexplained neurological illness in one ...

The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad that was held recently in August, brought a big relief to the situation of sports during the pandemic strict protocols. Vidit Gujrathi an Indian chess player, who is the third highest rated player in India, stated that he was very excited to captain the India team in the Olympiad, which ...

On Thursday, the International Monetary Fund held virtual discussion regarding the ongoing state of pandemic which it said was far from over. Closely observing the nations’ struggle with the Covid-19 amid the dwindling economy caused by global lockdown, IMF came to the aid of India, the second worst affected nation in the world, after US. ...

India reported 95,735 new coronavirus cases, verging close to crossing the one lakh-mark in the number of daily cases. Up until now, no nation has crossed or even reached this mark. India has seen in the course of recent weeks, a consistent spike in the number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day. Meanwhile, ...

The Indian economy was already in awful shape, however, the flare-up of the pandemic has dived it further. The Reserve Bank of India’s committee report expressed that the pandemic “has impacted the best of businesses” and organizations that were generally better before the virus outbreak. Experts believe that banks might be more cautious about loan ...