Coronavirus World

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use.

India manufactures more than 60% of all vaccines sold across the globe, and while its $40 billion pharmaceutical sector is not yet involved in the production of the expensive Pfizer Inc and Moderna shots, the nation will play a pivotal role in immunizing much of the world.

 South Africa, which with more than 828,000 cases is the continent's worst-hit country, on Wednesday said it had now entered a second wave of the pandemic.

Together, we will defeat the virus, and we will soon end the pandemic, and we will save millions and millions of lives, both in our country and all over the world. And we've already started," Trump said during signing the executive order on Tuesday at a White House event.

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old woman in Britain, has become the first person in the world to receive a clinically authorized, fully-tested Covid-19 vaccine.

The mass inoculation will fuel hope that the world may be turning a corner in the fight against a pandemic that has crushed economies and killed more than 1.5 million, although ultra-cold storage and tricky logistics will limit its use for now.

All CRISPR diagnostics to date have required that the viral RNA be converted to DNA and amplified before it can be detected, adding time and complexity, the researchers said.

Final checks were taking place on Sunday on the deliveries of the coronavirus vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech before its rollout to hospitals across the UK in super-cold containers.

Britain will start administrating the first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday with the National Health Service giving top priority to frontline workers, care home staff and residents and those above the age of 80.

Trump at times has criticized Anthony Fauci’s insistence on aggressive measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now claimed 273,000 US lives.