"All manufacturers, Pfizer-Biontech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca and others are looking at how they can improve their vaccine to make sure that we are ready for any variant - there are about 4,000 variants around the world of Covid now."
In a UK trial, the same vaccine was found to be 89.3% effective, Serum CEO Adar Poonawalla said.
Thick clouds of smoke could be seen billowing out of one of the buildings in the SII complex at Gopalpatti, though company officials remained tightlipped on the development.
India's Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of Covid-19 has touched 1.5 percent, the lowest since March 22 and is continuously declining, said the union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) here on Monday.
While concluding a discussion on management of Covid-19 during the one-day special session of Delhi assembly, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that the highest tests per day per million in the world were currently being conducted in Delhi.
Already stretched thin by the pandemic, freight companies face problems ranging from shrinking capacity on container ships and cargo aircraft to a lack of visibility on when a vaccine will arrive.
The survey of more than 4,000 people from urban as well as rural pockets has revealed that around 42% were hypertensive, nearly 20% diabetic and as many as 60% were overweight.
About 8.8 million human deaths, or 15.7 per cent of all deaths in the world, are caused by cancer.
The "Lancet Commission" report by 28 global specialists in psychiatry, public health and neuroscience, as well as mental health patients and advocacy groups, said the growing crisis could cause lasting harm to people, communities and economies worldwide.
Neurologists in the city say that they are witnessing an increase in the number of Alzheimer’s cases these days.
This is the first time that data on air pollution and lifespan has been studied together in order to examine the global variations in how they affect overall life expectancy.
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