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Modi govt holds out on Beijing offer for Covid help, but no trade bar on private firms Chinese government has offered to help India as it grapples with a devastating second Covid wave, which has seen the country record over 3 lakh cases daily for a week. Nayanima Basu 28 April, 2021 10:18 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Indian private companies are allowed to procure critical medical equipment and items from China to aid efforts to check the Covid crisis, but there is no government-to-government initiative on this front on account of bilateral tensions over...

No patent waiver, but here are the alternatives vaccine makers are offering for Covid shots Proposal for intellectual property & and patent rights waiver was first introduced at WTO in 2020 by India and South Africa. It has been opposed by US and Europe. Kairvy Grewal 27 April, 2021 3:25 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met last week and continued their resistance towards India and South Africa’s proposal to waive intellectual property (IP) and patent rights on Covid-19 vaccines.  Instead, vaccine makers have o...

How pandemic fatigue led India to squander a chance to beat Covid while it was down Delayed action on shoring up vaccines, and India’s return to pre-pandemic normal with a vengeance have been seen as signs of fatigue as well as a level of complacence. Abantika Ghosh 18 April, 2021 10:04 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: On 13 April, 101 days after the first two Covid-19 vaccines were approved in India, the central government took a decision to waive the requirement of bridging trials in the country for vaccines approved in Europe, Japan, the US etc. What pro...

This CSIR sero survey could partly explain why India is in the grip of Covid wave again CSIR conducted 2 follow-up sero surveys on people found to be seropositive in a nationwide survey last year. The one conducted after 6 months revealed an interesting finding. Mohana Basu 15 April, 2021 7:30 am IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: At least 20 per cent of people found to be seropositive in a survey last year lost their neutralising antibody levels in the subsequent six months, according to a nationwide survey by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR...

The good news about Covid — it now holds the key to unlocking an HIV vaccine Covid saw researchers world over collaborate at an unprecedented scale & churn out a vast library of information. This data could now help develop a HIV vaccine. Sandhya Ramesh 14 April, 2021 8:18 am IST Text Size: A+ Bengaluru: It was in late 2019 that the first Covid-19 cases were identified in China. It was just about a year and a half ago, but it might as well have been another lifetime.  In the time since, the world has got acquainted with a pandemic, learnt to live wit...