A new sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in various countries including India, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Ghebreyesus said that the world body was following the development. “On COVID-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 percent over the past two weeks. Four out of […]
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Italy tightens Covid-19 health protocols as pandemic indicators worsen
Italy on Thursday updated coronavirus health protocols in the workplace, as the main pandemic indicators in the country continue to rise. The new rules, developed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and the Ministry of Health, will require mask use for those with specific health risks, or in […]
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WHO approves Biological E Limited as additional manufacturing site for Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
US Embassy in India congratulated Biological E. Limited, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical and vaccines company for getting approval from WHO as an additional manufacturing site for the Janssen/Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. “Congratulations to @biological_e on its @WHO approval as an additional manufacturing site for the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine! Great […]
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Covaxin safe for children aged 2-18 years, says Bharat Biotech
Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) on Thursday announced that Covaxin, its whole-virion inactivated COVID-19 vaccine has proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and highly immunogenic in paediatric subjects in phase II/III study, said a press release. The study has been accepted and published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, a peer-reviewed high-impact factor […]
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Covaxin booster shot enhances efficacy against Delta, Omicron variants of Covid-19: Study
A study showed that administration of Covaxin booster dose will enhance the vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant infection and give protection against two Omicron variants of COVID-19. The study by ‘bioRxiv’, an open-access preprint repository for the biological sciences, shared on Tuesday that its study shows that administration of […]
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SEC to discuss India’s first indigenously developed vaccine against cervical cancer
The first indigenously developed quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccine against cervical cancer by the Serum Institute of India (SII) will be discussed by the Subject expert committee on Wednesday. The application for market authorization of the qHPV vaccine was submitted to the DCGI on June 8 by Prakash Kumar Singh […]
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Russian Health Watchdog Detects Omicron Subvariant BA.4 in Population
A more contagious subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron strain has slipped into Russia, a senior official at the national consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said. Kamil Khafizov, the head of genome research at Rospotrebnadzor’s Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, told reporters that two national labs had submitted the viral genome of the BA.4 sublineage […]
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‘First time in history’: Cancer vanishes from every patient’s body in drug trial
In what appears to be a miracle and ‘first time in history’, a small clinical trial has found that every single rectal cancer patient who received an experimental treatment found that their cancer had vanished. According to New York Times, in the small clinical trial conducted by Memorial Sloan Kettering […]
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Know everything about ‘Winter Vomiting Bug’ Norovirus
Norovirus, also known as the ‘winter vomiting bug’ is a highly contagious virus strain, similar to the diarrhoea-inducing rotavirus. It causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea-like symptoms. It can contaminate food and beverages and then infect people ingesting the infected items. Food or water contaminated with the virus may taste, smell and look the […]
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Why Ketamine is speedster of antidepressants: Study
Ketamine acts as a speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to common antidepressants that can take several weeks, according to a new study by Northwestern University. The Northwestern Medicine study has identified for the first time exactly how ketamine works so quickly, and how it might be adapted for use as […]
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WHO confirms 80 monkeypox cases in 11 countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 80 cases of monkeypox in 11 countries and said they are working to better understand the extent and cause of the outbreak. In a statement issued on Friday, the WHO said the virus is endemic in some animal populations in a number of […]
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WHO to convene emergency meeting over monkeypox outbreak
The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to convene an emergency meeting of experts to discuss the latest outbreak of monkeypox in wake of rapidly rising cases, according to Russian media. The meeting’s agenda is believed to be the ways of the virus’ transmission, its high prevalence in gays and bisexual men, as well […]
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WHO consultations on approval of Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine underway
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Monday that consultations with the World Health Organization (WHO) on approval of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine are still underway.’ “They are continuing,” Murashko told reporters. In January, Murashko said that Russia had sent all data on the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine […]
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WHO Covid-19 death estimates have no scientific basis: Expert
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 death estimates are based on modelling which has no scientific or epidemiological basis, claimed senior epidemiologist at AIIMS Delhi, Dr Sanjay Rai. “WHO gave an estimate on modelling, the basic epidemiological principle is ignored. During COVID-19, most predictions happened based on modelling and mostly failed. There […]
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Covid XE variant confirmed; no cause for alarm, say officials
Two unconfirmed cases were reported from Maharashtra and Gujarat, the country’s first case of Omicron sub-variant XE has been confirmed by the Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG), a network of national testing laboratories set up by the Government. As of now, experts say, there is no evidence to suggest that […]