The vaccine candidate, ZyCoV-D, showed a "strong immune response" in animal studies, and the antibodies produced were able to completely neutralise the wild type virus, Zydus said. The 12 institutes have been asked by the ICMR to fast track clinical trials of the vaccine as it is being considered as one of the top priority projects which are being monitored at the topmost level of the government.
Taking no chances, the Delhi police threw a massive security ring in almost all the major hospitals where the victims of Wednesday's high intensity blast outside the high court were rushed in.
Losing her two-month-long grim battle for survival, two-year-old battered baby girl Falak, whose harrowing ordeal had shocked the country, died in New Delhi on Thursday night following a cardiac arrest.
"It has been 17 months; will our lives be spent only in hospitals? Will my sister be ever cured?", rues the sister of the 12-year-old gang rape survivor, on whom 20 surgeries have already been performed.
The Delhi Police, which has registered a case of murder in the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, will send her viscera samples to a laboratory either in Britain or the US to identify the poison including whether it could be radioactive isotopes that cannot be detected in Indian labs.
Though there is enough anecdotal evidence of COVID-19 catching children -- early teens and younger -- there is little reason to panic, said several doctors and scientists. They also stressed on the urgent need to vaccinate children to stem the spread of the infection.
The condition of Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi following a rise in creatinine level in his body, is stable.
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