COVID-19 Daily Updates

Fact check: No, India’s vaccine ‘Covishield’ is not going to be commercialized in 73 days

August 23, 2020, 7:03 PM

Nation Next Newsroom | Pune

Serum Institute of India (SII) has rubbished reports, which stated that SIIs COVID-19 vaccine Covishield will be commercialized in 73 days. Some reports also claimed that after the phase III trials of the vaccine are initiated in India, Indians will be given free shots of Covishield.

SIIs official statement read: Serum Institute of India clarifies that the current claims over COVISHIELDs availability, in the media are completely false and conjectural. Presently, the government has granted us permission to only manufacture it and stockpile it for future use.

Also read : India conducts over one million COVID-19 tests in single day

Covishield had been developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish firm Astra Zeneca in partnership with SII. Currently, the vaccine is undergoing phase III trials.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

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

Published

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

Published

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.