Corona Updates

Covid vaccine boosters improve protection to as much as 75% against a rapidly spreading omicron variant that’s much more likely to bypass two doses than earlier strains, preliminary U.K. data show. The basic course of shots from…
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The Centre has rejected the Pune-based Serum Institute of India’s (SII) request to approve the third dose of Covishield even as India registers more than 30 cases of the new Omicron variant. This comes after a review meeting on SII’s…
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As many as seven new cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were reported in Maharashtra on Friday, taking the state’s total count to 17. Out of the seven, three cases have been detected in Mumbai and four in Pune. The cases confirmed in…
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New coronavirus infections in South Korea exceeded 7,000 for the third consecutive day on Friday in a record-breaking surge that has crushed hospitals and threatens the country’s goals to weather the pandemic without lockdowns. Prime…
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Two Singapore residents may have caught the omicron variant even after receiving Covid-19 booster shots, in cases that may shed light on the protection offered by the third dose of vaccine. A 24-year-old female airport passenger service…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday it remained unclear whether additional Covid-19 vaccine doses are needed to protect against the new Omicron variant, and urged wealthy countries to avoid hoarding the jabs. The UN health…
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The national drugs regulator’s subject expert committee is likely to meet on Friday to consider the application of Serum Institute of India , to use its Covishield vaccine as a booster dose, and an application from Dr Reddy’s Laboratories,…
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South Africa should boost the provision of antiretroviral drugs for millions of people infected with HIV to potentially reduce the chance of new Covid-19 variants to emerge, scientists said. In a revised study of an HIV sufferer with…
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Maharashtra’s first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, a 33-year-old marine engineer, has tested negative for the virus, news agency PTI reported today. The man, a resident of the Kalyan-Dombivli municipal area near Mumbai, was…
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Over 133,000 children in the United States have tested positive for the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the past few days, according to data published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.…
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