Corona Updates

The US said Thursday only adults who “have personal concerns” about mRNA vaccines, access issues or medical reasons for refusing them may now receive the Johnson & Johnson Covid shot, which has been linked to a rare but serious clotting…
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India on Thursday expressed its strong objections to figures shared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding coronavirus-related deaths in the country. The global health said India reported 4.7 million excess Covid deaths between…
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India may reconsider the nine-month gap between the second Covid-19 shot and the booster dose for those travelling overseas, especially to countries mandating that arriving travellers have been administered a third shot, people familiar…
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The Omicron subvariants may burn themselves out in the next couple of months and there could be another outbreak of Delta or a different coronavirus strain this summer, according to a modelling study conducted in Israel. The finding,…
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As many as 81.2 lakh people died in the country in the year 2020, an increase of 6.2 per cent than 2019 when the country had registered 76.4 lakh deaths, according to data prepared by the Registrar General of India (RGI). In 2020, when…
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More than two years after the novel coronavirus triggered a pandemic, the world is still dealing with variants and waves of the deadly virus. China – widely believed to be ‘ground zero’ for Covid-19 – has seen yet another spikes in cases…
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Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection well enough to trigger a new wave, but are far less able to thrive in the blood of people vaccinated against COVID-19, South African…
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While cases in China’s Shanghai are gradually dropping, residents in the capital city of Beijing are now under stricter Covid-19 curbs. In a bid to avoid a Shanghai-like outbreak, authorities in the Chinese capital have made a negative…
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The central government is yet to decide on reducing the gap between the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and the precaution dose from the current nine months to six months, reported ANI on Saturday, quoting sources. This comes as recent…
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China’s Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co. said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and targeting the omicron variant has obtained clinical trial approval in the United Arab Emirates. With Friday’s…
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