Corona Updates

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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The recently approved heterologous Covid-19 vaccine, Biological E Limited (BE) Corbevax is expected to be available as a booster dose on the COWIN App in both public and private vaccination centres from today - August 12, 2022. Corbevax…
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With fears of the fourth wave of the pandemic looming over several countries, India is witnessing yet another spike in Covid-19 cases across the country, with the positivity rate getting higher and higher each day. The number of Covid-19…
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Delhi on Sunday reported 2,423 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 14.97 per cent, the highest since January 22, while two more people died due to the viral disease, according to data shared by the city health department. On…
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China’s southern island province of Hainan started mass Covid-19 testing on Sunday, locking down more parts of the province of over 10 million residents, as authorities scramble to contain multiple Omicron-driven outbreaks, including the…
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One in eight people who get coronavirus develop at least one symptom of long Covid, one of the most comprehensive studies on the condition to date suggested on Thursday. With more than half a billion coronavirus cases recorded worldwide…
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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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