India has crossed the landmark of vaccinating 1 billion individuals in about nine months since the drive began. The countrywide vaccination program was launched on January 16 with the aim of covering all of India’s 944 million adults this year. As of now, 75% of them have got at least...
U.S. Trade Representative Supports Waiver to Accelerate Covid-19 Vaccine Production
In a move that could help Indian companies ramp up production of Covid-19 vaccines currently developed/marketed by Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, Katherine Tai just released a statement supporting the waiver of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs provisions on the World Trade Organization), relating the production of these vaccines Tai,...
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...