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New Delhi: India has begun its first human trials of a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate as the world’s second-most populous country recorded nearly 49,000 new cases.
The additional infections took India’s total to more than 1.3 million on Saturday, with surges seen in a quarter of the country’s 36 states and union territories.
India has recorded nearly 49,000 new cases of COVID-19.CREDIT:AP
It has tallied 31,358 deaths, including 757 in the previous 24 hours. It has reported a much lower death rate than the world’s two other worst-hit countries, the United States and Brazil. Johns Hopkins University showed that the US has more than 4.1 million cases, while Brazil has a caseload of nearly 2.3 million.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a premier teaching hospital in the capital of New Delhi, says it has administered the first dose of a trial COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
The candidate vaccine, Covaxin, is among nearly two dozen that are in human trials around the world. AIIMS is among the 12 sites selected by the Indian Council for Medical Research for conducting the two-phase randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials of Covaxin.
Countries are making giant bets on various vaccine candidates, entering into purchasing agreements with pharmaceutical companies for delivery if and when regulators deem the doses safe and effective.
In other coronavirus developments, Vietnam has reported the first local case of COVID-19 in over three months.
A British pilot, identified by the official Vietnam News Agency as Stephen Cameron, is carried on a stretcher from a hospital in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. He was the most critical COVID-19 case in the country but has recovered and been released from hospital.CREDIT:AP
The 57-year-old man from central Da Nang city was hospitalised on Thursday with a fever and respiratory distress. The Health Ministry says his condition worsened and he was put on a ventilator.
Health workers have not been able to trace the source for his infection. For over a month, he did not travel outside his hometown, where no case of COVID-19 has been reported since April.
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Coronavirus: Number of worldwide confirmed cases passes five million
More than 630,000 people globally have lost their lives to COVID-19.
Da Nang city authorities have isolated the hospital he had visited and those who had been in contact with the man in the past weeks. His family members and over 100 others have initially tested negative for the coronavirus.
The news of a local infection after most activities had resumed in mid-May caused many to cancel or prematurely end their holidays in Da Nang, one of Vietnam’s most popular beach destinations.
Vietnam has reported 416 confirmed cases and no deaths.
South Korea has reported 113 newly confirmed cases over the past 24 hours — its first daily jump above 100 in nearly four months.
Models wearing face masks during a fashion show amid the coronavirus pandemic in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday.CREDIT:AP
But the rise was expected as health authorities had forecast a temporary spike driven by imported infections found among cargo-ship crews and hundreds of South Korean construction workers flown out of virus-ravaged Iraq.
The figures released on Saturday by South Korea’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention brought the national caseload to 14,092, including 298 deaths.
The agency says 86 of the new cases are linked to international arrivals, while the other 27 involved local transmissions. It says the imported cases include 36 South Korean workers who returned from Iraq and 32 crew members of a Russia-flagged cargo ship docked in the southern port of Busan.
In Yemen, a humanitarian group says 97 medical workers in Yemen have died of the coronavirus, the first reliable estimate to give a glimpse into the pandemic’s impact on the devastated health sector in the war-torn country.
The report by MedGlobal relies on accounts from Yemeni doctors tracking the deaths of colleagues to gauge the toll of the virus. The 97 dead include infectious disease experts, medical directors, midwives and pharmacists.
Men in protective gear bury a victim of COVID-19 in the Houthi-controlled city of Ibb, Yemen.CREDIT:AP
Even before the pandemic Yemen had just 10 doctors for every 10,000 people. The country’s health system is in shambles after five years of war that has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Half of its medical facilities are dysfunctional.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government has reported 1674 confirmed coronavirus infections and 469 deaths.
Meanwhile, the first hurricane to threaten the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges for Hawaii, even though officials there are long accustomed to tropical storms.
Hurricane Douglas, right, churning in the Pacific Ocean heading towards Hawaii, left. The storm is currently a Category 3 hurricane but is expected to weaken before it arrives in the state on Sunday. CREDIT:NOAA/AP
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The additional infections took India’s total to more than 1.3 million on Saturday, with surges seen in a quarter of the country’s 36 states and union territories.
India has recorded nearly 49,000 new cases of COVID-19.CREDIT:AP
It has tallied 31,358 deaths, including 757 in the previous 24 hours. It has reported a much lower death rate than the world’s two other worst-hit countries, the United States and Brazil. Johns Hopkins University showed that the US has more than 4.1 million cases, while Brazil has a caseload of nearly 2.3 million.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a premier teaching hospital in the capital of New Delhi, says it has administered the first dose of a trial COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
The candidate vaccine, Covaxin, is among nearly two dozen that are in human trials around the world. AIIMS is among the 12 sites selected by the Indian Council for Medical Research for conducting the two-phase randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials of Covaxin.
Countries are making giant bets on various vaccine candidates, entering into purchasing agreements with pharmaceutical companies for delivery if and when regulators deem the doses safe and effective.
In other coronavirus developments, Vietnam has reported the first local case of COVID-19 in over three months.
A British pilot, identified by the official Vietnam News Agency as Stephen Cameron, is carried on a stretcher from a hospital in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. He was the most critical COVID-19 case in the country but has recovered and been released from hospital.CREDIT:AP
The 57-year-old man from central Da Nang city was hospitalised on Thursday with a fever and respiratory distress. The Health Ministry says his condition worsened and he was put on a ventilator.
Health workers have not been able to trace the source for his infection. For over a month, he did not travel outside his hometown, where no case of COVID-19 has been reported since April.
0:51
Coronavirus: Number of worldwide confirmed cases passes five million
More than 630,000 people globally have lost their lives to COVID-19.
Da Nang city authorities have isolated the hospital he had visited and those who had been in contact with the man in the past weeks. His family members and over 100 others have initially tested negative for the coronavirus.
The news of a local infection after most activities had resumed in mid-May caused many to cancel or prematurely end their holidays in Da Nang, one of Vietnam’s most popular beach destinations.
Vietnam has reported 416 confirmed cases and no deaths.
South Korea has reported 113 newly confirmed cases over the past 24 hours — its first daily jump above 100 in nearly four months.
Models wearing face masks during a fashion show amid the coronavirus pandemic in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday.CREDIT:AP
But the rise was expected as health authorities had forecast a temporary spike driven by imported infections found among cargo-ship crews and hundreds of South Korean construction workers flown out of virus-ravaged Iraq.
The figures released on Saturday by South Korea’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention brought the national caseload to 14,092, including 298 deaths.
The agency says 86 of the new cases are linked to international arrivals, while the other 27 involved local transmissions. It says the imported cases include 36 South Korean workers who returned from Iraq and 32 crew members of a Russia-flagged cargo ship docked in the southern port of Busan.
In Yemen, a humanitarian group says 97 medical workers in Yemen have died of the coronavirus, the first reliable estimate to give a glimpse into the pandemic’s impact on the devastated health sector in the war-torn country.
The report by MedGlobal relies on accounts from Yemeni doctors tracking the deaths of colleagues to gauge the toll of the virus. The 97 dead include infectious disease experts, medical directors, midwives and pharmacists.
Men in protective gear bury a victim of COVID-19 in the Houthi-controlled city of Ibb, Yemen.CREDIT:AP
Even before the pandemic Yemen had just 10 doctors for every 10,000 people. The country’s health system is in shambles after five years of war that has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Half of its medical facilities are dysfunctional.
Yemen’s internationally recognised government has reported 1674 confirmed coronavirus infections and 469 deaths.
Meanwhile, the first hurricane to threaten the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges for Hawaii, even though officials there are long accustomed to tropical storms.
Hurricane Douglas, right, churning in the Pacific Ocean heading towards Hawaii, left. The storm is currently a Category 3 hurricane but is expected to weaken before it arrives in the state on Sunday. CREDIT:NOAA/AP
https://www.theage.com.au/world/asi...-potential-drug-20200725-p55ffs.html#comments
