Monkeypox & Corona Updates

Nasal Covid-19 vaccines could help to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control, the World Health Organization said Wednesday after homegrown products were approved in India and China. The WHO welcomed the new front in the fight against…
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भारत बायोटेक की नाक के रास्ते दी जाने वाली कोरोना वैक्सीन को इमरजेंसी इस्तेमाल के लिए डीसीजीआई की मंजूरी मिल गई है। स्वास्थ्य मंत्री डॉ. मनसुख मंडाविया ने इस बात की जानकारी दी। यह भारत की पहली नेजल वैक्सीन होगी। माना जा रहा है कि इससे…
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China extended its lockdown in districts of western megacity Chengdu and ordered more mass testing there from Sunday as it tries to contain a Covid outbreak. Chengdu’s central Jinjiang district will further intensify lockdowns and extend…
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China has swiftly censored a Beijing-based research centre’s report disagreeing with the government’s zero-Covid strategy after it argued that the virus containment policies are disrupting trade and industry and stalling the Chinese…
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Hong Kong reported a total of 9,708 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, the highest daily tally in five months. The case count included 213 imported cases, health officials said at a briefing Sunday. There were 10 new Covid patients in…
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The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and signaling that Europe's outbreak may be starting to decline, the World Health Organization said Thursday.…
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The World Health Organization has been facing hurdles in tracking known and detecting new coronavirus variants amid reduced surveillance, testing and sequencing globally, a top expert has said days after WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom…
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A new study on monkeypox by the US disease control body CDC now suggests that the virus can linger on many common household objects for several days despite regular disinfecting. For this study, a home shared by two monkeypox patients was…
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The World Health Organization told AFP on Wednesday that studies are underway to see whether genetic changes in the monkeypox virus are driving the rapid spread of the disease. The two distinct groups, or variants, of the virus, were…
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Vaccines against monkeypox are not 100 per cent effective and that is why, people must reduce their own risks of infection, WHO technical lead Rosamund Lewis said on Wednesday. This comes as more than 35,000 cases of monkeypox have been…
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