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At 2,51,209, India sees near 35-k dip in new Covid cases, positivity rate falls to 15.88%
India registered a significant dip in Covid-19 casecount with 2,51,209 fresh infections being registered on Friday.
This is a little over 35,000 less than Thursday’s figures when 2,86,384 cases were reported. The current active caseload…
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Australia gives green signal to boosters for 16-17 age group
Australia's drug regulator on Friday approved the use of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for 16- and 17-year-olds as authorities urge people to get their third doses soon to mitigate the threat from the Omicron coronavirus variant.
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Pfizer Covid Pill Europe’s First Approved Oral Treatment Against Covid
The EU's drug watchdog approved Pfizer's coronavirus pill on Thursday, making it the first oral antiviral treatment for the disease to be authorised in Europe.
Studies showed the drug called Paxlovid reduces hospitalisation and death in…
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अब बाजार में मिलेंगी कोविशील्ड और कोवैक्सीन, जानें- कैसे मिलेगी और कैसे लगेगी
कोरोना महामारी के खिलाफ जंग में 'संजीवनी' साबित हो चुके कोविशील्ड और कोवैक्सीन को लेकर अच्छी खबर है। ड्रग कंट्रोलर जनरल ऑफ इंडिया (डीसीजीआई) ने कोविशील्ड और कोवैक्सिन के लिए सशर्त बाजार की मंजूरी दे दी है।
लेकिन वैक्सीन लगाने के लिए…
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COVID-19 booster shots may not be given to all – Find out why?
Last year in December, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that booster shots will be available for frontline workers and senior citizens aged above 60 from January 10, 2022.
This came after India saw rising cases of coronavirus…
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Covid-19: India logs 2,86,384 new cases in last 24 hours; positivity rate rises to nearly 20%
India reported 2,86,384 new Covid-19 cases and 573 deaths in the last 24 hours, showed the Union health ministry bulletin on Thursday morning. The country's positivity rate shot up from 16.16 per cent to 19.59 per cent.
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Covid-19: ‘Flurona’ isn’t real, people can get co-infection, say researchers
Some posts on social media talked about one such infection named ‘flurona’ in Israel, which the users said is a double infection of Covid-19 and influenza.
But healthcare experts have now dismissed this, saying it’s not a different thing.…
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Those infected with Omicron have significant immune response, can protect against Delta: ICMR
Individuals infected with Omicron have a significant immune response which could neutralize not only Omicron but also other variants of concern, including the most prevalent Delta variant, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study…
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Moderna begins trial of omicron-specific vaccine booster
US biotech company Moderna announced on Wednesday that it has begun clinical trials of a booster dose of vaccine designed specifically to combat the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
The trials will involve a total of 600 adults — half…
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New study claims Omicron can survive 8 days on plastic, 21 hours on skin
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is highly contagious and transmissible and now, according to a new study, the Omicron variant can survive up to eight days on plastic and 21 hours on the skin - a much longer time than other variants of…
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