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India’s second COVID-19 vaccine gets approval for human trials

July 4, 2020, 11:42 PM

Gursshheen Gahllen | Nagpur

Gujarat-based pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila has announced that its COVID-19 vaccine had received approval from DCGI (The Drug Controller General of India) to begin phase I and II of clinical human trials. Zydus Cadilas vaccine is the second Indian vaccine after Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin? to receive approval by DCGI for human trials.

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Zydus Cadilas COVID-19 vaccine displayed satisfactory results in the pre-clinical trials, which included animals. As per reports, animals like mice, rabbits, guinea pigs and rats were tested and these animals developed antibodies against the virus. After reading the findings of these tests, DCGI gave a go-ahead to the company to begin human trails.

With over 10 million COVID-19 cases worldwide, over 110 independent scientific bodies are working to develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Global players like Moderna Inc, CanSino BioTech and Oxford-Astrazeneca are currently in advanced stages of clinical human trails.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.