MAY 5, 2021
Canada is authorizing the use of Pfizer Inc's Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15, the first doses to be allowed for people that young, the federal health ministry said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to take a similar step "very soon," U.S. health officials said.
Supriya Sharma, a senior adviser...
MAY 5, 2021
The IT major said that its initiatives have been developed per “guidance of external experts and groups” including international and domestic health authorities. (Image: Shutterstock)
“Safety and well-being of our people continues to be our top priority and we are providing care, support and access to vaccines for our eligible people in India who are facing an unprecedented...
MAY 5, 2021
NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 04 : People wearing protective face masks wait to receive a dose of COVISHIELD, a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, at a vaccination center in New Delhi, India on May 04, 2021. (Photo by Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
As more and more people get Covid-19 in...
MAY 4, 2021
Wealthy nations have put an emphasis on Covax, a UN-backed programme meant to share vaccines with the poorest nations. - Ben STANSALL
The Group of Seven wealthy democracies will discuss coronavirus vaccines Wednesday as they face growing pressure to share stockpiles and know-how with poor nations trailing far behind on fighting the pandemic.
Foreign ministers of Britain, Canada,...
MAY 4, 2021
Pfizer’s vaccine is disproportionately reaching the world’s rich. - Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Last year, racing to develop a vaccine in record time, Pfizer made a big decision: Unlike several rival manufacturers, which vowed to forgo profits on their shots during the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer planned to profit on its vaccine.
On Tuesday, the company announced just how much money...
MAY 3, 2021
Mumbai has three venues available. - BCCI
Relocating the IPL to Mumbai has emerged as a serious option for the BCCI as it looks to minimise the risks after several Covid-19 related cases were reported from both the venues currently hosting the tournament. If things go to plan, Mumbai could be hosting matches as early...
May 3, 2021
In the ongoing vaccination drive across the country, as many as 2,15,185 beneficiaries of the age group 18 to 44 years received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry.
As per a release by the ministry on Monday, the vaccination drive is underway in 12 states and union...
MAY 3, 2021
A sprawling dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast, littered with barrels of waste, had been mostly hidden from the public eye for over half a century. Now, marine scientists revealed the field of submerged waste, some of it likely toxic.
They detected around 27,000 barrels.
Over two weeks in March, scientists with NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
MAY 2, 2021
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) scored an emphatic win in the keenly watched assembly elections in West Bengal, MK Stalin’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) returned to power in Tamil Nadu after a decade, and Kerala’s Left government scripted history by winning two consecutive terms on Sunday, putting an end to a month-long polling exercise that...
MAY 2, 2021
A doctor in her office vaccinates a patient with a coronavirus vaccine. - Getty Images
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) have been close rivals in the COVID-19 vaccine race ever since they announced the starts of their phase 3 vaccine trials -- on the very same day back in July. But Pfizer edged ahead en route...
