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China has officially joined the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX alliance to equitably distribute Covid-19 vaccines around the globe, ending speculation that it plans to supply them on its own to developing countries to improve its image dented by the pandemic since it emerged in Wuhan in December last year.
Drug firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Friday said that the addition of antiviral Umifenovir did not demonstrate any significant clinical benefit over Favipiravir alone in moderate Covid-19 patients.
Total number of confirmed positive cases in India reaches 6,971,208; death toll stands at 107,346 as of October 9