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Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd (APIIC) on Wednesday inked an MoU with CSIR-IICT, a premier R & D institute in the country to to set up a bulk drug pharma park in the state of with the Centre’s support.

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The teams have been selected to take up these initiatives through a rigorous bi-national review process of proposals received under Covid-19 Ignition Grants in April 2020 issued by the US-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF), the DST said in a statement.

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The decision has been taken in view of increased admissions of non-COVID serious patients through emergency, particularly trauma emergency as the Trauma Centre has been converted into a dedicated COVID-19 facility.

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Treating critically ill Covid-19 patients with corticosteroid drugs reduces the risk of death by 20%, an analysis of seven international trials found on Wednesday, prompting the World Health Organisation to update its advice on treatment.

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Experts agree that agencies at all levels of government should urgently prepare for the vast and complex effort to vaccinate hundreds of millions of Americans.

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In the letter, which is being circulated among academicians and scientists, the signatories (in their individual capacities) have claimed that the resultant impact (of restrictions on public transport) on the economic activities are cruel for the vast majority of people, who do not have financial reserves to sustain themselves through the extended period of economic inactivity.

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Heparin and its related derivative, the low molecular weight heparin, also known as enoxaparin, is an anticoagulant that has demonstrated its effectiveness in treatment of patients infected with Covid-19 virus during the ongoing pandemic.

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The COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, approved by Russia last month, has been shown to elicit antibody response with no serious adverse events in small human trials, according to preliminary results published in The Lancet journal. Results show that two formulations of the vaccine have a good safety profile detected over 42 days, and induce antibody responses within 21 days.

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Active cases of Covid-19 in Delhi have increased by over 90% in the past one month — from 9,897 on August 4 to 18,845 on September 4. This is more than double the rate of increase in active cases nationally in the corresponding period.

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Trials of the vaccine, known as AZD1222, will be conducted at multiple facilities in Japan, targeting 250 subjects, the company said in a release.

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