-Livemint.com Unprecedented resources have been marshaled across the world in the race for a covid-19 Vaccine, with the US and Germany pumping in most funds The Indian government’s recent letter trying to speed up clinical trials for a Vaccine candidate, which it is developing in collaboration with a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company, betrayed its desperation to develop the world’s first covid-19 Vaccine. But in a historically unparalleled global race for a Vaccine, India...
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Completion of trials could take at least 6 to 9 months, says Soumya Swaminathan -R Prasad
-The Hindu It is encouraging to see that at least seven Indian companies are developing COVID-19 Vaccines. All of them must be tested ... and till we see results from these trials, we cannot predict which of them will be successful, says the Chief Scientist at WHO A day after scientists and experts raised serious concerns over Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) letter to all 12 principal investigators to speed up...
More »‘It’s unscientific’: Doctors entrusted with Covid-19 Vaccine trial slam ICMR’s August 15 deadline -Arunabh Saikia
-Scroll.in The council chief wrote to 12 institutions asking them to enroll participants in the trials by July 7. Four days after India’s first indigenous Vaccine candidate for Covid-19 was granted approval for human clinical trials by the drug regulator, the Indian Council of Medical Research on Thursday said that it wanted to “launch the Vaccine for public health use latest by August 15”. On July 2, the council’s director-general Balram Bhargava wrote...
More »Virus, outdated census method mar Gujarat’s lion numbers -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Efficacy of Vaccine for CDV not known, data unavailable An outdated methodology and the true mortality from a virus affecting India’s lions dent the credibility of the Gujarat government’s claims on its lion population. In a press statement on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted results of the 2020 Asiatic Lion Census that put the number of lions at 674, a 28% rise from...
More »When a News Article Vanishes, We Have More Than Just a Pandemic to Worry About -Priyanka Pulla
-TheWire.in An article critical of the government's response to COVID-19 was published on The New Indian Express's website on May 8, and disappeared from its link within a day. Last week, The New Indian Express, one of India’s major English newspapers, pulled down an article that was heavily critical of the Centre’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The article, entitled ‘Centre’s COVID-19 Communication Plan: hold back data, gag agencies and scientists’, discussed...
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