HYDERABAD/DELHI: Bharat Biotech on Friday announced the Phase 3 trial results of COVAXIN that has placed the vaccine to be 77.8% effective against symptomatic COVID. The study also said that Covaxin Phase 3 trials demonstrates a 70.8% overall protection against all variants of Covid. Also Read & Watch: Diwali Gift: WHO Grants Approval To Covaxin; […]
On the eve of Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, the World Health Organization (WHO) granted an emergency use license to India’s homegrown Covaxin. United Nations (UN) backed COVAX is an initiative to distribute COVID vaccine aimed at reducing vaccine inequity, a project now in desperate need of more vaccines after failing to meet its […]
JALANDHAR: Lovely Professional University (LPU) students have conceptualised and designed the ‘Flying Farmer’, a drone that can be exclusively deployed in farming and field surveys. The ‘Flying Farmer’ is a wireless, sensor device that can be used in mapping and survey of yields and biomass. It estimates the nutrient content of the soil to aid […]
NEW DELHI: Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday said that the capital’s air quality had deteriorated due to some people deliberately bursting firecrackers and rise in stubble burning. The national capital woke to a hazy morning. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the city’s air quality remained in severe category. It said that the Air […]
DELHI: Barely hours before the festival of lights, India on Wednesday got a Diwali gift from World Health Organisation (WHO) after it granted approval to Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Bharat Biotech by accepting its Covid vaccine– Covaxin– that is also India’s first indigenous — for emergency use listing (EUL). “WHO has granted emergency use listing (EUL) to […]