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Oxford Covid Vaccine Shows Strong Immune Response In Older Adults
Covid-19 vaccine being developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca and Oxford University produced a strong immune response in older adults, raising hopes that it can protect the age groups most at risk from the virus. ....
59% Indians Sceptical About Coronavirus Vaccine, Won't Rush To Take It: Survey
With chances of affordable Covid-19 vaccine likely to be available by February 2021, 59 per cent Indians divulged that they will not rush to take it, a survey revealed on Wednesday. ....
Addition Of Two New IPL Teams On Agenda For Dec 24 BCCI AGM
Addition of two new teams to the Indian Premier League (IPL) is amongst the long agenda for the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) 89th Annual General Meeting (AGM), to be held on December 24, for which a notice has been issued. At present, eight teams compete in the IPL. ....
Hackers Targeting Covid-19 Vaccine Cold Chain, Warns IBM
Tech giant IBM on Thursday said its team has uncovered a global phishing campaign targeting organisations associated with a Covid-19 cold chain. ....
BioNTech CEO Recounts Origin Story Of Covid Vaccine
Scientists from BioNTech and Astra Zeneca which are at the bleeding edge of coronavirus vaccine development revealed little known details of the origin stories of their frantic race that began early this year, at a United Nations Covid-19 summit on Friday. ....
British Indian Couple Among 1st In World To Receive Covid Vaccine
As UK began one of the largest vaccination drives, an Indian-origin couple in their 80s became one of the first few people to receive the recently approved Coronavirus vaccine. ....
William Shakespeare 2nd Person In UK To Receive Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine
The UK has begun one of its largest vaccination drives and 81-year-old namesake of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare, became the second citizen in the West to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus vaccine. ....
BCCI Boss Ganguly & Co. To Continue As SC Defers Hearing To 2021
Indian cricket board president Sourav Ganguly, secretary Jay Shah, and joint secretary Jayesh George, whose tenures have ended, would continue at least till the third week of January, when the Supreme Court would next hear the cricket reforms case. Besides fixing the next listing, the court on Wednesday disposed of a "substantial number of" the 102 applications attached with the case.....
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Covid Vaccine After Two Adverse Reactions
The UK's medical regulator has advised that anyone who has a history of significant allergic reactions to medicines, food or vaccines should not receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine currently in use in the country, according to media reports. ....
UN Chief Antonio Guterres Says He'll Take Covid Vaccine
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has confirmed that he will take a Covid-19 vaccine publicly when it becomes available to him. ....
