India's health minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed that people in six states and Union Territories have been given the first dose of the vaccine covering 100 per cent of the adult population.

All adults in six states, Union Territories have got first vaccine dose: Indian health ministry

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and Britain's GSK announced Thursday the start of final tests of their belated Covid vaccine as they race to add their jab to the world's arsenal against the pandemic.

Sanofi, GSK launch final phase of Covid vaccine trials

Seychelles and Myanmar will be getting Made in India vaccines on Friday. Seychelles will get 50,000 doses of vaccines on Friday at around 1 pm local time. The amount is significant since the population of the country is 97,000.

Myanmar, Seychelles to get Made in India vaccine on Friday

Several governments including the USA, the United Kingdom have given approval for administering Covid-19 vaccine on the basis of claims made by the medical research companies, even when the clinical trials have been carried out for a very short duration and certainly not exhaustively.

Opinion: Need for free insurance scheme for those administered with Covid-19 vaccine

Before Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine was proved highly successful in clinical trials last month, the company offered the Trump administration the chance to lock in supplies beyond the 100 million doses the pharmaceutical maker agreed to sell the government as part of a $1.

Trump administration passed on chance to secure more of Pfizer vaccine

The US and Europe are in line to get the first doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine after a partnership between Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE delivered dazzling preliminary results in a large patient trial.

Countries queue for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Thursday vaccine developers should push to make billions of their COVID-19 vaccines to ensure access to all parts of the world, instead of focusing on the rich countries.

Fauci hopeful about the prospects for a successful COVID-19 vaccine

India has increased its engagement with Myanmar and Bangladesh on Covid-19 vaccine with in-person and virtual high-level meetings with officials of the two countries.

India increases engagement with Myanmar, Bangladesh on Covid-19 vaccine

The world's fastest supercomputer has identified chemicals that could curb the widespread of coronavirus outbreak by finding it's cure, according to experts. IBM's supercomputer known as Summit is the world's fastest supercomputer and is equipped with the "brain of Artificial Intelligence".

COVID-19: Crucial step towards vaccine powered by AI supercomputer

Humanity is in a race against time to find a cure for the coronavirus, the virus has killed over 7,300 people and has infected more than 185,000 globally.

Humanity in a race against time for a cure