Lord Eddie Lister, Boris Johnson’s special envoy to the Gulf countries visited India to secure millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine being manufactured under license by India’s Serum Institute. Lister and international affairs adviser David Quarrey met India’s foreign secretary Harsh Shringla in New Delhi to “discuss bilateral relations...
India’s Own Covid-19 Vaccine is 81 Percent Effective
Yesterday, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech published interim results from the Phase 3 trial of it Covid-19 vaccine, branded as Covaxin. 25,8000 subjects participated in the trial. The trial found 43 cases of COVID-19 patients who showed symptoms ranging from mild to moderate and severe, and of the total cases, 36 were from...