Monkeypox & Corona Updates

The strict and elaborate Covid-19 testing and quarantine procedures to be followed by all those who meet Chinese President Xi Jinping make the possibility of his attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand on…
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Days after Delhi reported its first case of monkeypox, the authorities have decided to send international travellers arriving in Delhi with symptoms such as high fever and back pain to the LNJP Hospital from the airport. India has so far…
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The Union ministry of health and family welfare on Sunday said a high-level review meeting on the monkeypox disease was being held by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) with the detection of the fourth case of the virus in…
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India's cumulative Covid-19 tally is at 43,888,755 after as many as 20,279 people tested positive in the last 24 hours, a Union health ministry bulletin showed on Sunday. The latest daily caseload is over 1,100 cases fewer (down 5.3%)…
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Intranasal vaccines for Covid-19 will be critical to protect people against the emerging variants of concern of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) in the US noted that the widely…
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India is about to achieve the coveted landmark of administering 200 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses in what has been touted as the world’s biggest inoculation drive. Union Health Minister on Saturday tweeted saying that history was about to…
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The BA.5 Omicron subvariant, now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, is four times more resistant to Covid-19 vaccines, according to a new study published in Nature. The study found the variant is four times more resistant to…
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People in the 18-59 age group can get free precaution doses of the Covid vaccine at government vaccination centres under a 75-day special drive which begins today. The drive, aimed at boosting the administration of Covid precaution doses,…
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A new study has revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid-19 may survive on meat and fish products in the refrigerator or the freezer for up to 30 days. The research was recently published in the journal Applied and…
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Covid-19 cases in Shanghai continued to climb as parts of China’s financial hub face more rounds of mass testing, with new sub-variants providing a constant challenge to the country’s zero-tolerance approach to the virus. The city recorded…
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