Corona Updates

China reported 20,472 new daily Covid cases for Tuesday, as widespread lockdowns and mass testing in Shanghai and other parts of the country turn up a rising number of infections. The current outbreak has already surpassed the number of…
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The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday. Director of Shanghai’s working group on…
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The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over. There is the fourth wave in some of the Asian and European countries due to Omicron sub-variant BA.2. And now, another deadly and rapidly spreading Covid variant XE has been detected. The World Health…
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The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) has recommended Serum Institute of India's Covovax for vaccination of those aged 12 years and above. India's drug regulator had approved Covid-19 vaccine Covovax for restricted…
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China added more than 13,000 new Covid-19 infections with state media reporting a case infected with a new subtype of the omicron variant. The new iteration of the virus, isolated from a mild Covid-19 patient in a city less than 70…
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While countries around the world are working to flatten the coronavirus curve, global Covid-19 cases on Sunday topped 490 million. According to the John Hopkins University data, the world has witnessed over 6.15 million deaths due to the…
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An increase in Covid cases in the first two weeks of March in several European countries, and China and South Korea, among other nations, had kept the world on edge amid fears of resurgence of deadly waves that put the global health systems…
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Russian Health Ministry has registered the nasal version of Sputnik V, the world’s first nasal vaccine against COVID-19. “Russian Health Ministry registers the nasal version of Sputnik V, the world’s first nasal vaccine against COVID-19,”…
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A new mutant of the novel coronavirus known as XE appears to be around ten per cent more transmissible than the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron, as per the World Health Organisation. Until now, the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was considered…
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Hong Kong authorities on Saturday asked the entire population of more than 7.4 million people to voluntarily test themselves for COVID-19 at home for three days in a row starting next week. The announcement by Chief Executive Carrie Lam…
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