Health-Technologies

Britain is hoping that millions of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will be delivered by the end of the year but the total will depend on how quickly it can be manufactured, UK's business minister Alok Sharma said on Friday. The UK approved Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, jumping ahead of the rest of the world in the...

Britain's AstraZeneca said on Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 90% effective without any serious side effects, giving the world another important tool to halt the COVID-19 pandemic. The combined analysis from both dosing regimens resulted in an average efficacy of 70%. The vaccine developed by Oxford University was 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 when it...

India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 90.50 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 84.78 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.67 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Saturday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 90,50,597 with 46,232 infections being reported in a day, while the death toll...

Amazon on Tuesday launched an online pharmacy for delivering prescription medications in the United States, increasing competition with drug retailers such as Walgreens, CVS and Walmart. Called Amazon Pharmacy, the new store lets customers price-compare as they buy drugs on the company's website or app. Shoppers can toggle at checkout between their co-pay and a non-insurance option, heavily discounted for members...

India today reported 47,905 fresh COVID-19 cases, 8% higher than on Wednesday. The country has up to 86.83 lakh cases so far with 1,28,121 deaths, up 550. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh remained the top five most affected states in the country in overall numbers. The total number of people who have recovered from COVID-19...

Pfizer shares soared nearly 20 per cent to an all-time high on the BSE in early trading after its parent company, the US-based multinational pharma firm Pfizer said that its COVID-19 vaccine, developed in association with the German partner BioNTech SE, was more than 90 per cent effective against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Riding on the...

Delhi has reported over 6,000 new Covid cases every day since November 3 and 13 per cent of this may be linked to increased air pollution, the IMA (Indian Medical Association) said Saturday. The IMA advised people not to venture outdoors early morning, when pollution levels are at their highest and senior citizens and children - believed at greater risk...

The number of active coronavirus cases in the country has witnessed a sustained downward trend - remaining below six lakh for the fourth day in a row - and such cases are now less than seven per cent of the total, the Union Health Ministry said Monday. On September 3, the active caseload was over 21 per cent of...

The country's one-day coronavirus tally rose by almost 14 per cent with a jump of about 50,000 new COVID-19 infections taking its overall Covid numbers past the 80 lakh mark, the Health Ministry data shows. In the last 24 hours, the country reported 49,881 new cases of coronavirus as the total number of infected people till now shot to...

The number of coronavirus cases reported in India in a span of 24 hours dropped below 40,000 after over three months, while the new fatalities?registered during the same period remained under 500,?according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday India's COVID-19 caseload mounted to?79,46,429,?with?36,470 new infections being reported in a day, while the death toll due to the...