"You will be hearing some good news from the UK very soon," Serum's Chief Executive Adar Poonawalla told reporters, adding that approval from the Indian regulator would likely follow shortly. India wants to deliver 600 million coronavirus shots in the next six to eight months starting in January. The country's drug regulator is also considering similar approvals for the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine and another developed by India's Bharat Biotech. Vaccine delayPfizer postpones the delivery of new batches of its vaccine to eight European nations including Spain, the Spanish health ministry says, a day after the EU began its immunization campaign. The United States is the worst-affected country with 333,140 deaths, followed by Brazil with 191,139, India with 147,901, and Mexico with 122,426.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 28, 2020 18:33 UTC