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New Delhi: As Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is on war-footing to bring a vaccine for COVID-19 by mid-August, the government too is hopeful. The central government said on Sunday that the vaccine is now in human trial stage which…

New Delhi: Facing a backlash for setting an “absurd” deadline of August 15 to produce a COVID-19 vaccine, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has clarified it was acting in accordance with globally accepted norms to fast-track…

New Delhi: Facing an attack from the country’s scientists and experts for “unreasonable” and “absurd” timeline to produce COVID-19 vaccine by August 15, ICMR claimed that its letter to clinical trial sites mentioning the date “was meant to…

New Delhi: Of the 14 companies that have approached the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) for approval/validation of rapid antigen test kits for COVID-19, the regulatory body has okayed just one firm. According to the ICMR’s…

New Delhi: Experts and medicos have criticised the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) recent announcement that the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, COVAXIN, will be available for public use by August 15. The experts said that such a…

New Delhi: The country registered the highest single-day spike of 22,771 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally of cases to 648,315 on Saturday. Besides, as many as 442 more patients succumbed to the infection…

New Delhi: India on Friday, registered the highest single-day spike of 20,903 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the total tally of positive cases to 6,25,544. A total of 379 have died due to COVID-19 across the country since…

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) announced on Thursday that it has collaborated with Bharat Biotech for fast-tracking the clinical trials of India’s first COVID-19 vaccine (BBV152 COVID Vaccine). ICMR Director…

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has urged state governments, public, and private institutions and hospitals to ‘scale-up testing for COVID-19’ in view of the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country.…

New Delhi: A day after Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal announced a mandatory five-day institutional quarantine for anyone testing positive for COVID-19, the order was withdrawn on Saturday. Baijal’s controversial order -- applicable for…