Corona Updates

A new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in countries like India and the World Health Organisation is following this, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “On COVID-19, globally…
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As Canada couldn’t find any takers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, either at home or abroad, it is going to throw out about 13.6 million doses of the vaccine. Canada signed a contract with AstraZeneca in 2020 to get 20 million…
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About 10 states in India have detected a new sub-variant of Omicron BA.2.75, which may be “alarming” in nature, according to an Israeli expert on Sunday. However, the Indian Health Ministry is yet to officially confirm the detection of the…
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Scientists in the US have developed a rapid Covid-19 test that can accurately detect all current variants of SARS-CoV-2 within hours. The test, CoVarScan, detects the signatures of eight hotspots on the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes…
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India saw a marginal hike in its daily Covid-19 cases, with as many as 17,092 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry’s dashboard showed on Saturday. With this, the overall national caseload stands at 43,…
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The World Health Organization said Thursday it expected “high levels” of Covid-19 in Europe this summer and called on countries to monitor the spread as cases tripled in the past month. “As countries across the European region have lifted…
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India reported 18,819 new Covid cases in 24 hours, which is a considerable rise from the previous day's count of 14,506, taking the caseload to over one lakh mark after a gap of four months, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family…
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Health officials in South Korea on Wednesday approved the country’s first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years or older, adding another public health tool in the fight against a prolonged pandemic. In clinical trials…
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India reported 17,073 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours as per the date updated at 8 am on Monday, a jump of 45 per cent from yesterday. As many as 11,739 new Covid-19 cases and 25 deaths were recorded on Sunday, according to the…
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Maharashtra on Saturday reported 23 cases of COVID-19 caused by sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, taking the tally of such patients to 49, a state health department official said. As per the report of the Mumbai-based Kasturba Hospital Central…
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