Monkeypox & Corona Updates

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa CDC and the World Health Organization, the organizations…
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The Singapore government is closely monitoring a new surge in Covid-19 infections, as the estimated weekly case count almost doubled in the week ending May 11. Health minister Ong Ye Kung on Saturday advised the wearing of masks again.…
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A week after British-Swedish pharma company AstraZeneca withdrew its COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, the organisation announced on Thursday that its vaccine, made in collaboration with Oxford University, was found to increase the risk of a…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that there is an unfamiliar set of COVID-19 variants spreading across the US, which they collectively called FLiRT. Among these, the KP.2 variant has become particularly…
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Amid the safety concerns over AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine Covishield and Vaxzevria, the pharmaceutical giant on Tuesday said it has initiated to withdraw its Vaxzevria vaccine globally, The Telegraph reported. The company, however, said…
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कोरोना महामारी में भारत में 90 फीसदी से ज्‍यादा लोगों को लगाई गई कोविशील्‍ड वैक्‍सीन सवालों के घेरे में आ गई है. इसे बनाने वाली कंपनी एस्‍ट्रेजेनेका ने ब्रिटिश हाईकोर्ट में इसके खराब साइड इफैक्‍ट ब्‍लड क्‍लोटिंग (थ्रोम्बोसाइटोपेनिया…
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Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has accepted for the first time that its Covid vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS”. The admission was made in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February. The company stated in the…
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A total of 619 cases of the JN.1 sub-variant of Covid-19 have been reported from 12 states in India as of Thursday, news agency PTI reported on Friday, quoting official sources. 199 cases were reported in Karnataka, 148 in Kerala, 110 in…
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The Karnataka government has reported one death due to Covid in the last 24 hours, the Department of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday. A total of 148 positive cases were reported in the last 24 hours. The deceased has been…
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India has recorded a total of 162 cases of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1, with the highest number of infections reported from Kerala, according to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium's (INSACOG) data on Friday. While Kerala has reported…
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