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Lab tests confirm BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX), Pfizer vaccine effective against new Covid-19 variants
January 28, 2021 05:15 AM EST| By Hina ChowdharyA new laboratory test report that analysed the coronavirus candidate of BioNTech/Pfizer has revealed that the jab is protective against the new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and is easily adaptable.....
Canada Mulls Travel Ban, Strict Restrictions As New COVID Cases Rise
January 27, 2021 05:43 AM EST| By Hina ChowdharySummary Canada may renew travel ban, restrictions after spike in new cases. Opposition has blamed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-led government for not doing enough. The Prime Minister dispelled fears about vaccine shortage. The Ju.....
Providence Therapeutics: Canada’s 1st COVID Shot Heads For Trial
January 27, 2021 04:22 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneySummary Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc announced on Tuesday that it has begun clinical trials for the first made-in-Canada vaccine against the COVID-19 virus. The PTX-COVID19-B shot’s clinical study will be conducted in Toronto to t.....
Merck (NYSE: MRK) terminates Covid-19 vaccine development programme
January 25, 2021 11:26 PM EST| By Kunal SawhneyNew Jersey-headquartered pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co. Inc (NYSE: MRK) said on Monday, 25 January, that it has terminated its Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine development programme. The decision to discontinue the vaccine programme is based on&nb.....
Novavax (NVAX) Stocks Up As Canada Agrees To Buy 76-Mn Vaccine Shots
January 25, 2021 04:42 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Novavax has received an advance order from Canada for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate NVX-Cov2373. Its stocks climbed nearly 4 per cent on this agreement. The biotech scrips are 1532 per cent up in one year, led by the US government fund.....
California allows resumption of Moderna vaccine after allergy scare
January 23, 2021 08:02 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaCalifornia’s Health department has finally given a “go-ahead” for the distribution of the Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine which was earlier halted after several individuals started to fall sick soon after getting the jab from a s.....
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Shot May Be Powerful Enough To Beat UK Variant
January 21, 2021 08:54 AM EST| By Hina ChowdharySummary Results of a new study show that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may have the capability to neutralize the new mutant coronavirus variant found in Britain. While the results were not conclusive, they have been described as “p.....
Despite COVID, Canada Saw Decreased Business Insolvencies In 2020: StatCan
January 19, 2021 10:47 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyIn spite of the strong economic headwinds triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, business insolvencies declined by nearly a third, or 29.4 per cent, year-over-year (YoY) to 474 in the second quarter of 2020, reported Statistics Canada. This drop in numb...
WHO Chief cautions over inequality amid global COVID-19 vaccine rollout
January 18, 2021 10:43 PM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has blasted the unequal worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccine. He stated that it was "not right" that young adults in rich nations were vaccinated ahead of healthcare.....
Growing Safety Concerns around Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine; here’s what you need to know
January 17, 2021 08:43 PM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe COVID-19 vaccine, jointly developed by Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE’s (Nasdaq:BNTX), has come under the spotlight with doubts being raised concerning the vaccine’s safety profile. The mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2.....
Will the World be Able to Put The Kibosh on COVID-19 in 2021?
January 16, 2021 08:55 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyAt the end of 2019, a devastating monster virus sneaked into our lives. First, it gripped the emerging global superpower China, and before any country could sense the danger, the virus had spread across the world. Extensive .....
1 Million Vaccine Doses Per Week In Canada From April
January 15, 2021 07:37 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyCanada is expected to receive up to one million COVID-19 immunization doses per week from various drug makers from April 2021 onwards, announced Major General Dany Fortin, who is leading the country’s coronavirus vaccine logistics at the Public...
Medicago’s Plant-based Vaccine Candidate: Canada’s Own COVID Shot?
January 12, 2021 07:24 AM EST| By Hina ChowdharyWhile Canada is purchasing big batches of coronavirus shots from foreign pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Moderna, etc., there is a COVID-19 vaccine brewing in its own backyard as well. And it is a plant-based one! Canadian biopharmaceutical...
New Mutant Strain Reaches Japan; State of Emergency in Tokyo
January 11, 2021 09:51 PM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus has taken many lives and caused enormous economic and social disruption. Just as the world celebrated the rollout of new vaccines for COVID-19, new virus strains have been identified in a few countries. T.....
China denies entry to the WHO team probing COVID-19 origin
January 06, 2021 04:51 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneyA team from the World Health Organization (WHO), scheduled to investigate the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan, has been refused entry by China. Of the two associates of the investigation team who had already set out on their visit, one member has now .....
South African virus strain more dangerous than the UK mutant warn UK health officials
January 05, 2021 02:23 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaNew coronavirus mutation identified in South Africa is considered more infectious than the strain found in the UK. Experts say that there is no need to panic, even though the British Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, is very concerned about the late.....
Trudeau Govt To Make COVID Test Mandatory For Canada-Bound Flyers
December 31, 2020 04:08 AM EST| By Kunal SawhneySummary The federal government plans to make it a requirement that air passengers pass a COVID-19 PCR test three days before they arrive in Canada. The Trudeau government cabinet has arrived at the decision to enact this rule as quickly as poss.....
How 2020 Panned Out for Interest Rate Scenario Across Major Economies?
December 31, 2020 03:36 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaCentral banks across the globe have resorted to low interest rates to stimulate economies suffering from a recession amidst the pandemic. Many countries have lowered their interest rates to never-before-seen levels, close to 0% in most cases. Sinc.....
WHO warns coronavirus can become endemic; a wake-up call for 2021?
December 30, 2020 11:00 PM EST| By Kunal SawhneyThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taken innumerable lives and caused enormous disruption to economies, families, and societies worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have ~80.77 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, includin.....
AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID Shot Greenlit in UK, Under Review In Canada
December 30, 2020 05:17 AM EST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The UK is the first nation in the world to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine reportedly fights the new, highly contagious mutant variant of the coronavirus that is currently spreadi.....
