This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. The worldwide death toll were covering all the latest to the coronavirus has passed coronavirus developments a new terrible milestone passing here in britain and globally. 150,000 for the first time. A top uk Health Specialist warns first. The country could end up we begin in china with the highest death rate in europe due to early errors where a set of new statistics are showing the coronavirus pandemic made in the pandemic. In a different light. The first a 50 jump we have to face the reality of that. In the official total of people we were too slow with who died after testing postive a number of things. But we can make sure that, for covid 19 in wuhan in the second wave, the city where the virus originated. Were not too slow. The total number of confirmed deaths Germanys Health minister says the countrys covid 19 in china is now over 4
As chinas economy slumps, the International Monetary fund warns the Global Financial outlook could be far worse than many have predicted. The duke and duchess of cambridge speak to the bbc, about the need to protect Mental Health during lockdown, and their concerns when Prince Charles contracted coronavirus. I thought to myself if anybodys going to be able to beat this, its going to be him. And actually he was he was very lucky, he had mild symptoms and obviously speaking to him made me feel more reassured that he was ok and he was through the worst of it. And the leeds united legend Norman Hunter has died at the age of 76. Hed been dignosed with the coronavirus. Hello and welcome to viewers on bbc one for this bbc news special, as we build up to todays Coronavirus Briefing from the government, which is today being led by business secretary, alok sharma. But first lets look at the days latest developments. Official figures show that slightly fewer people died in hospital from coronavir
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Vaccine Discovery Programme supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India under the Mission COVID Suraksha- The Indian COVID-19 Vaccine Development Mission, implemented by BIRAC, moves into clinical trials
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technologyhas announced that it has approved additional funding towards clinical studies of India’s’first of its kind’ mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine – HGCO19, developed by Pune-based biotechnology company Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd.
This funding has been awarded under the’Mission COVID Suraksha- The Indian COVID-19 Vaccine Development Mission’by DBT’s dedicated Mission Implementation Unit at BiotechnologyIndustry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) after multiplerounds of evaluation of all the applications that were submitted in response to the ‘Request for Expression of Interest (REOI)’under Mission COVID Surakshafor the’Development of COVID-19 vaccine candidate(s)’.