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Covid Live News Updates: Paediatric trials of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin may begin in June

Bharat Biotech may begin paediatric trials of its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin from June, said the company's Business Development and International Advocacy Head Dr Raches Ella.
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08:39 AM

Global Covid-19 caseload tops 166.9 million

07:59 AM

Army ready to help Indians fight COVID-19, says CDS Rawat

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Sunday said the Army is ready to extend help to the people of India in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed nearly 3 lakh lives in the country.
07:36 AM

87,055 Indians returned from Singapore as part of Vande Bharat flights since last year

  • A total of 87,055 Indians have returned back home from Singapore since May last year as part of the Vande Bharat Mission repatriation flights, the Indian High Commission here has said.
  • Among the reasons the Indians had to return home were job loss, family compulsion and death in family due to COVID -19 pandemic that has impacted the entire world since last year.
07:14 AM

Japan opens large COVID-19 vaccination centres in Tokyo, Osaka

06:25 AM

Paediatric trials of Covaxin may begin in June

Bharat Biotech may begin paediatric trials of its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin from June, said the company's Business Development and International Advocacy Head Dr Raches Ella on Sunday.
06:24 AM

China reports 18 new COVID-19 cases on May 23 vs 19 a day earlier

Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mainland China now stand at 90,991, with the death toll unchanged at 4,636.
06:23 AM

COVID-19: Vaccination of people in 18-44 age group to begin across UP districts from June 1

The vaccination of people in the 18-44 age group against COVID-19 will be expanded to all district headquarters in Uttar Pradesh from June 1, a state government spokesperson said on Sunday.
06:23 AM

Mexico reports 50 more deaths from coronavirus

Mexico on Sunday registered 50 additional confirmed fatalities from COVID-19, bringing the official death toll to 221,647, the health ministry said.
06:22 AM

Hyderabad-based NGO receives first consignment of world's largest donation of Oxygen concentrators

Sahayata Trust, a Hyderabad-based NGO on Saturday, formally began the distribution of over 400 oxygen concentrators and Covid-relief apparatus as the first consignment of 170 devices arrived in Hyderabad from the United Kingdom. It is the world's largest donation of Oxygen Concentrators to any country.
06:21 AM

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed - WSJ

  • Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.
  • The newspaper said the report - which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits - may add weight to calls for a broader probe of whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory.
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