coronavirus vaccine

With a miserable first half for the stock market now in the history books, investors are assessing whether the U.S. economy can avoid a significant downturn as the Federal Reserve raises rates to fight the worst inflation in decades. The…

Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Friday after stronger-than-expected jobs data fueled expectations of another big interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this month. The Labor Department’s report showed nonfarm payrolls…

U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday, setting the S&P 500 for its worst first six months since 1970, on concerns that central banks determined to tame inflation will hamper global economic growth. Fears over slowing growth and surging…

An expert panel of India’s central drug authority on Friday recommended granting emergency use authorisation to Serum Institute’s Covovax for children aged 7 to 11 years, official sources said. The recommendation has been sent to Drugs…

Eighty-nine per cent of the country’s adult population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 while over 75 per cent of children in the 12-14 age group have received the first dose, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on…

The increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country over the last few days should not be a cause for panic, health experts said on Saturday, highlighting that no new variant of concern has been found and the rise so far is limited…

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has launched India’s first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine for animals. Developed by Haryana-based Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Equines, Anocovax is an inactivated…

A rally that lifted U.S. stocks from the brink of a bear market faces an important test next week, when consumer price data offers insight on how much more the Federal Reserve will need to do in its battle against the worst inflation in…

The government plans to focus on administering precaution dose of Covid vaccine to 4.7 crore 60-plus population, due for it by July 31, under its ongoing door-to-door Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 campaign, officials said on Sunday. Of the…

Biological E’s Corbevax becomes the first vaccine to get the Drug Controller General of…