Medical
Two new cases of COVID-19 in region
COVID-19 transmission controversies: can the virus can be airborne? The outbreak was declared on Monday and reported by Region of Waterloo Public Health on its website on Tuesday. Two staff members tested positive for COVID-19 during that outbreak. One more case is now resolved, improving that total to 1,179. Public health reports that half of the region's cases, 50 per cent, are linked to a... [Full Article...]
Trying to fast-track vaccine without compromising science, quality, ethics: ICMR
The companies namely are Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India (SII). "Now, they have got their sites ready and they are doing the clinical study approximately on 1,000 volunteers each at different sites". "We invested millions into this research because we know a vaccine is crucial to defeating COVID-19", Queensland Innovation Minister Kate Jones said in a statement . [Full Article...]
There will be no return to old normal after COVID-19 pandemic
The US, the world's worst-affected country, now has a total of more than 3.3 million cases and 135,000 deaths. Yet US President Donald Trump and White House officials have repeatedly said the disease is under control and that schools must reopen in the autumn. [Full Article...]
US man, 30, dies from virus after attending 'COVID party'
She then added that the patient's condition deteriorated until they were critically ill, before they came out with a heartbreaking change of heart in the moments before their death. Yang Jin, of the Union Hospital and Tongji Medical College, in Wuhan, China. Some people have been having parties at which a person who believes they have the virus and several others meet up in order to test wheth... [Full Article...]
Bharat Biotech starts human trials; Russian Federation successfully completes human testing
Meanwhile, Briefly.co.za reported that clinical trials had begun in South Africa although it remains unclear if it is the same vaccine as the one that has enjoyed success in Russian Federation. The registry lists the trial as "an open two-stage non-randomised Phase 1 study with the participation of healthy volunteers". It is working to develop an initial capacity of 200 million vials of the vacc... [Full Article...]
Human clinical trials begin for Quebec-made COVID-19 vaccine candidate
Back in May, researchers at the University of Oxford began enrolling subjects in a phase 2/3 clinical trial of the AstraZeneca-partnered vaccine AZD1222. First group of volunteers were reportedly given the vaccine on June 16th, and successive dosages after that reportedly showed effective immune response in the human bodies. [Full Article...]
United Kingdom could have Covid-19 vaccine by 2021
The first group of volunteers would be discharged on Wednesday and the second on July 20. Sponsored by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca , the vaccine study aims to evaluate about 30,000 subjects - about half of those in the United States - at high risk for COVID infection, including health-care workers. [Full Article...]
Russian university successfully completes human trials of coronavirus vaccine
Madhi said that the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 experimental vaccine is one of 19 being tested on humans globally. Phase II trials examine how well the vaccine works in creating an immune response within volunteers, and last up to a year. The trials will take place in the Nucleus Network's Brisbane Clinic and are expected to deliver results within three months. Flinders University researchers are testing ... [Full Article...]