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Britain on Wednesday gave emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, with health officials set to use criteria based on age and vulnerability to decide the order of people to receive it.
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India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,608,211, while the country's death toll soared to 139,700.
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Delhi airport authorities said that besides the cool chamber, it also has "cool dollies" at the airside that ensure an unbroken cool chain during temperature-sensitive cargo movement between terminal and aircraft.
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The 67-year-old minister was given the first shot on November 20.
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A total of 921 persons recovered on Friday taking the cumulative Covid-19 recoveries in the State to 2,62,751 with a recovery rate of 96.34 per cent.
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The 67-year-old is a senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a legislator from Ambala Cantt assembly constituency.
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Poonawalla joined the Serum Institute of India in 2001 and became the CEO of Serum Institute with complete control of the day-to-day operations of the company in 2011.
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Biden, who is due to take office on January 20, said he will make sure that the vaccine is both free and available.
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The death toll climbed to 1,39,700 with the coronavirus virus claiming 512 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country.
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India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,571,559, while the country's death toll soared to 139,188.
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Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa in response to a question from reporters about the possibility of imposing a night curfew said "..there is no such plans for now."
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Experts believe that the wait for COVID-19 vaccine will not be long and it is believed that it may be ready in the next few weeks, Modi said.
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This will be the second all-party meeting called by the government to discuss the COVID-19 situation since the outbreak of the coronavirus.
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The trials, which will commence in December, will be conducted on 250 patients across 20-25 centres in India.
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The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 90,16,289 pushing the national recovery rate to 94.20 per cent.
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Moderna also confirmed that it expects to have 20 million vaccine doses available in the US by the end of 2020.
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India comes in second place in terms of cases at 9,534,964, while the country's death toll soared to 138,648.
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The joint study by HFS Research and Infosys revealed that 51 per cent organisations consider remote work or hybrid workforce model to be the way forward.
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In the past 24 hours the virus caused 358 new deaths in the country with a population of more than 80 million, and 13,922 new cases of infection.
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"The epidemiological burden remains high," government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters as he announced the extension.