Corona Updates

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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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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North Korea reported no new fever cases on Saturday for the first time since its acknowledgement in mid-May of a COVID-19 outbreak in the isolated country, state-run media reported. North Korea said earlier this month it was on a path to…
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Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.…
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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%) than…
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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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