The patient who received the transplant is a 48-year-old man from Delhi
He tested positive for the coronavirus infection on June 8 and had sustained severe lung damage due to COVID-related fibrosis
A statement from the hospital said, "His condition continued to worsen in spite of ventilator support, he was airlifted to MGM Healthcare in Chennai from Ghaziabad on July 20"
The vaccine developed by Oxford University in collaboration with the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is undergoing phase 2 trials in India and phase 3 trials in other parts of the world
The vaccine candidate—called AZD1222 (formerly ChAdOx1 nCoV-19)—is being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India in India
It is expected to be ready by December 2020 with an estimated price of $4 (Rs. 295)
A 33-year-old man in Hong Kong has contracted COVID-19 twice this year in what is said to be the first documented case of reinfection newsbytesapp.com/timeline/world…
The man had been infected earlier this year in March and got reinfected in August, the study said
According to the pre-print study, the man's second case of COVID-19 occurred 142 days after the first bout
The 33-year-old had first tested positive for the virus on March 26
He experienced a cough, sore throat, fever, and headache
During the second infection, the man tested positive during entry screening at the Hong Kong airport on August 15
Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has been allowed to conduct a trial to test administer its COVID-19 vaccine candidate through the skin (intradermal vaccine delivery) newsbytesapp.com/timeline/india…
The method is said to be more effective as it requires a lower dose of vaccine compared to intramuscular routes, thus lowering the per injection cost
The vaccine candidate, called COVAXIN, is already undergoing trials for intramuscular vaccine delivery
Bharat Biotech, which developing COVAXIN in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has now become the first Indian company to be experimenting a potential vaccine in both intradermal and intramuscular methods