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...
India’s Covid-19 Vaccine to Canada, Mexico?
On Sunday this week, the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines made in India, will land in Mexico City from an order of 870,000 doses placed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The president confirmed this in his first press conference after recovering from a novel coronavirus infection himself. Not be...
Philips Offers Mobile ICU Units For Covid-19 in India
Designed to meet the critical-care requirements of Covid-19 patients, the Philips pre-fabricated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has a capacity for nine beds and is locally manufactured by Philips in India. Each ICU unit can be assembled in one day at the chosen site. Each of these portable ICUs comes equipped...
US-India Trade Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels
The two largest democracies in the world, India and the United Stated had their economies buffeted by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic so it is no surprise that bilateral trade dipped as well. The bright spot was American FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, into India but that was driven largely...
Serum Institute Preps for Phase 3 Trial of Covid Vaccine
Five sites across India are ready for the third and final phase of human trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Department of Biotechnology Secretary Renu Swarup said on Monday. The Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine maker in the world, has been chosen by Oxford and its partner AstraZeneca to...
India Opens World's Largest Field Hospital
CNN reports that India has just opened the world's largest field hospital. With a capacity of 10,200 beds, this facility in Delhi is meant to host Covid-19 positive patients who don't need intensive care and can't easily quarantine at home. This follows the 10,000 bed hospital announced by Beijing. For...