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Business News›News›Newsblogs›Coronavirus Live News Updates: DRDO's 2DG medicine for treating COVID-19 patients to be launched next week
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Economic Times | 15 May, 2021 | 08.11AM IST
Coronavirus Live News Updates: DRDO's 2DG medicine for treating COVID-19 patients to be launched next week
The first batch of 10,000 doses of 2DG medicine for treating COVID-19 patients would be launched early next week, informed Defence Research and Development Organisation officials. The drug manufacturers are working on ramping up the production of the medicine for future use. The drug has been developed by a team of DRDO scientists including Dr Anant Narayan Bhatt.
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UK to speed up vaccinations, warns Indian variant may delay full reopening
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain would accelerate its COVID-19 vaccination programme, to try to contain a fast-spreading variant first identified in India that could knock a re-opening of the economy off track. He said the government would accelerate remaining second doses to the over 50s and those clinically vulnerable to just eight weeks after the first dose, and would prioritise first doses for those eligible who had not yet come forward.
- The United Kingdom has delivered one of the world's fastest inoculation campaigns, giving a first shot to almost 70% of the adult population and a second to 36%, helping to reduce infection rates and deaths. But the emergence of the B.1.617.2 variant in parts of northern England and London has prompted some scientists to call for the reopening to be delayed, and a rethink on the speed of the vaccine rollout.
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Mainland China reported 14 new COVID-19 cases on May 14, up from seven cases a day earlier. The National Health Commission said that five of the new cases were local infections, including three in central China's Anhui province and two in Liaoning in the northeast. The rest originated overseas.
