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India should have COVID-19 vaccine by December 2020: Adar Poonawalla

August 11, 2020, 2:38 PM

Sneha Shah | Pune

Adar Poonawalla

Adar Poonawalla

Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII), which is one of the largest vaccine producers in the world, has said that India should have a COVID-19 vaccine ready by December 2020. SII has partnered with Oxford University and British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine ? Covishield.
In an interview with CNBC-TV18 on August 10 Poonawalla also said that the final pricing of the vaccine in India will be announced in the span of two months. Poonawalla said, We are going to start trials in less than two weeks. The trial is in partnership with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). We will conduct trials in India on a few thousand patients. We will start manufacturing vaccines by the end of August.
Earlier Poonawalla had said that the company plans to manufacture 300 million to 400 million doses by the end of the year.

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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.