BEIJING: China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said today. China is in a global race to develop cost-effective vaccines to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. Using insect cells to grow proteins for the coronavirus vaccine […]
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MUMBAI: Indian authorities have imposed tough anti-coronavirus restrictions on gatherings and the size of Ganesha elephant god idols for one of the biggest religious festivals of the year that started today. The 10 days of prayers and family gatherings for Ganesh Chaturthi started under a pandemic cloud with the country […]
MUMBAI: India reported a record daily jump of coronavirus infections today, bringing the total near 3 million and piling pressure on authorities to curb huge gatherings as a major religious festival began. The 69,878 new infections — the fourth straight day above 60,000 — take India’s total cases to 2.98 […]
Prominent Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who has been in a coma since Thursday, arrived in Germany for medical treatment after his suspected poisoning, according to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh’s tweet. After two days, Russian authorities allowed his transportation abroad after Navalny’s family, activists and international leaders appealed directly to […]
GENEVA: The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, as European nations battled rising numbers of new cases. Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state, Victoria, reported 13 new coronavirus deaths in the 24 hours to this morning, authorities said, while new infections in the hotspot state remained below 200 for the second consecutive day. Other than in Victoria, which accounts for over 80 per cent of the country’s […]
SEOUL: South Korea started talks with China’s top diplomat today, the first visit by a high-level Beijing official since the new coronavirus emerged in China late last year. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party Politburo, was meeting South Korea’s new national security adviser, Suh Hoon, in the southern […]
In a tweet, the company also said that 18% of the participants currently enrolled are Black, Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, groups among the hardest hit by the coronavirus virus pandemic. Drug developer Moderna Inc on Friday said it has so far enrolled 13,194 participants in the ongoing late-stage […]
All 22 new infections were imported cases, according to a statement by the National Health Commission, marking the sixth straight day with no new locally transmitted infections. China reported 22 cases of the new coronavirus in the mainland for Aug. 21, same as a day earlier, the health commission said […]
The CDC reported its tally of cases of the respiratory illness known as Covid-19, caused by a new coronavirus, as of 4 pm ET on August 20 versus its previous report a day earlier. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday said the number of deaths […]