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Why Ocugen (OCGN) Stocks Are Up Over 450% YTD?
March 01, 2021 06:35 AM EST| By Shreya BiswasSource: Billion Photos, Shutterstock Summary Ocugen stocks are currently trending on the stock markets, having recorded a nearly 37 per cent jump on Friday, February 26. The stocks have jumped by nearly 456 per cent since the beginning of the...
Two COVID-19 vaccines that are helping the world get over the pandemic
February 27, 2021 08:20 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaSource: siam.pukkato, Shutterstock Summary Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca’s respective COVID-19 vaccines were found to have reduced hospitalization in the UK. The two vaccines also proved effective against the contagious UK varia...
Canada Approves Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine, Orders 20 Mn Doses
February 26, 2021 11:34 AM EST| By Ipsita SarkarSource: solarseven, Shutterstock Summary Canada will start receiving AstraZeneca drugs from April, to be produced at US plants. Canada has ordered 20 million doses from AstraZeneca. Canada now has three COVID-19 drugs: Pfizer-BioNTech, Modern...
J&J COVID Jab Clears FDA Test, Plans To Rollout 100 Mn Doses By June
February 24, 2021 11:19 AM EST| By Ipsita SarkarSource: Shutterstock Summary FDA finds no safety concerns in the new Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine. The company is expected to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine by June. After Friday’s final approval, it will quickly rollou...
Canada’s Largest Shipment of Pfizer & Moderna COVID Shots This Week
February 23, 2021 09:48 AM EST| By Shreya BiswasSource: Shutterstock Summary Canada is set to receive a record number of shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna this week. This spike in the delivery count comes after the country faced a shipment shortage for about a month. The delivery for...
COVID-19 vaccine updates from Nook and Corner
February 21, 2021 01:19 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe pressure is on for nations to vaccinate people against COVID-19, especially when the new strain is also picking the pace. As per media reports, close to 200 million people have been vaccinated, covering more than 85 countries. With the launch o.....
A race against COVID-19: Meet five global vaccine developers in the fray
February 15, 2021 04:34 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyVaccine development typically requires years of research, testing and additional time for large-scale manufacturing. However, this time researchers across the globe raced against the clock to develop anti-coronavirus vaccines within a year amid the.....
Supply Chain Snarls Canada’s COVID Inoculation Campaign
February 10, 2021 08:38 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyOn Monday, December 14, 2020, support worker Anita Quidangen was one of the first Ontarions to be administered the first vial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Canada was the third nation after the United Kingdom and Bahrain to authorize the eme.....
Canada Approves 6 Doses from Each Pfizer-BioNTech Vial as Cases Rise
February 10, 2021 05:07 AM EST| By Ipsita SarkarSummary Only 3% of the population have received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines so far. Fines to be hiked up to C$3000 against those crossing border without COVID test certificate. Canadian regulators have allowed health workers to extract.....
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Corporate Canada Has Cash To Spend But COVID Is A Dampener: Report
February 09, 2021 05:36 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaBig Canadian companies have amassed large sums of money but will not spend soon because of the ongoing economic uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, say analysts at the Bank of Montreal. Many corporate houses were facing extreme challenges to.....
South Africa suspends Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
February 08, 2021 02:40 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaSouth Africa has temporarily suspended the rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a study claimed that the vaccine provided minimum protection against the new Covid-19 variant detected there. These are early trail results of a new st.....
Canada’s Employment Falls Drastically In Jan 2021 Amid COVID Lockdown
February 05, 2021 11:35 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Canada’s unemployment levels shot up by 0.6 percentage points to 9.4 per cent in January, the highest surge since August in 2020. As per Statistics Canada, employment was down by 1.2 per cent month-over-month (MoM) in January. Th.....
Better than injection? All about nasal COVID-19 vaccines in the pipeline
February 05, 2021 11:06 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyThe intramuscular route has been thought of as the ultimate way to administer a vaccine. However, intranasal vaccines have multiple advantages of their own, including ease of self-administration and systematic immunity. The nasal route has outstan.....
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US to get 3rd COVID-19 vaccine, Johnson & Johnson files Emergency Use Authorization
February 04, 2021 11:08 PM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaJohnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) updated the market that Janssen Biotech Inc has submitted an application to the US regulator for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Let us deep dive and discuss in detail: The .....
Revelation Biosciences finishes dosing for five single dose cohorts
February 04, 2021 08:17 AM EST| By Hina ChowdharyClinical stage life sciences company Revelation Biosciences Inc. announced on 3 February that it has been conceded approval to make an addition of a multiple dose cohort to its Phase-1 clinical study of REVTx‑99 in healthy volunteers by t...
GlaxoSmithKline & CureVac Collaborate To Develop COVID-19 Vaccines
February 03, 2021 09:27 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneySummary GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac announced their partnership to co-produce mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidates that would combat the new coronavirus mutants. Stocks of both pharma companies started showing movement in pre-market hours. Cu.....
Novavax Agrees To Make COVID Shots In Canada, But It Will Take A While
February 03, 2021 08:01 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyStepping up Canada’s efforts to produce COVID-19 vaccines at home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, February 2, that US drugmaker Novavax Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX, NVAX:US) has agreed to a tentative deal. The Maryland, US-based compa...
Canada Begins Airline Bailout; Sunwing Gets Emergency C$375Mn Loan
February 03, 2021 06:22 AM EST| By Hina ChowdharyCanada’s budget airline Sunwing will receive C$375 million in emergency loans to keep it afloat after the government announced new travel restrictions due to the rising number of Covid infections. The company had begun talks for the .....
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Canada’s Precision Gets C$25Mn Funding To Boost COVID Shot Production
February 03, 2021 04:50 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The Canadian government has invested about C$ 25.1 million in genetics medicine technology provider Precision Nanosystems Inc. The company said the investment will help finance the development of its C$ 50.2-million biomanufacturing cen.....
Canada May Soon Make COVID Shots, Pfizer Predicts US$15B Vaccine Sales
February 02, 2021 11:33 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaCanada’s COVID-19 vaccine progress is likely to jump up a level as reports expect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce details regarding a deal to produce the shots in the country. Canada not having the bandwidth to manufacture COVID shot...
