SHANGHAI (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of the Beijing’s continuing pressure on scientists conducting research on the coronavirus. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post Monday that…
A 62-year-old man who claims to have received 217 COVID-19 vaccinations shows no signs of adverse events linked to the shots and appears to have stronger immunity against the virus than others, researchers said as they cautioning others to not get more than the recommended vaccinations. In a study published Monday in the journal Lancet…
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak was ruled negligent in its duty of care to passengers in an Australian class-action case Wednesday. The Ruby Princess ocean liner left Sydney on March 8, 2020, with 2,671 passengers aboard for a…
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Katalin Karikó is a professor at Sagan’s University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Drew Weissman performed his prizewinning research together with Karikó at the…
Raima Sen plays the Science Editor of a fictional news outlet in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Vaccine War. Vivek Agnihotri’s The Vaccine War is being touted as India’s first ‘bio-science’ film. The low budget film traces how India’s scientists fought all odds to create the country’s first indigenous vaccine against the Covid-19 virus during the pandemic….
The Vaccine War tells the story of how women scientists helped develop India’s indigenous vaccine against Covid-19. Director: Vivek Agnihotri Cast: Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, Sapthami Gowda, Girija Oak, Anupam Kher Where to watch: Theatres Rating: 3 stars Director Vivek Agnihotri says that his new film The Vaccine War is an attempt to…
LONDON (AP) — Gatwick Airport, London’s second-busiest, is limiting flights this week, partly because of an outbreak of COVID-19 within air traffic control. In a statement late Monday, the airport said a daily 800-flight limit, affecting both departures and arrivals, has been imposed until Sunday. Gatwick said around 30% of staff in the division within…
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. (PTI) Shiv Sena secretary and spokesperson Kiran Pawaskar while Sena UBT leaders are preoccupied with criticism and slinging mud at the chief minister, Shinde has consistently responded through actions that benefit people Mumbaikars are getting true justice now under chief minister Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena secretary and spokesperson Kiran Pawaskar…
The adverse effects (AEs) of Covid-19 vaccines have mostly been mild, transient and self-limiting.(Representational Image/PTI) This research directly addresses the fear of having a heart issues or a cardiac arrest due to the vaccine There is no association between the Covid-19 vaccines used in India — Covishield and Covaxin — and an increase in the…