New York: US President Joe Biden announced a country-wide plan to administer Covid vaccine booster doses for all adults, keep schools and workplaces open, expand free-at-home testing, new protocols for international travel, and bolster response and supply of treatment pills to prevent hospitalisation and deaths....
New Delhi: The new super mutant Covid variant Omicron appears to be very transmissible, top microbiologist and virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang said, even as India detected its first two cases of it in Karnataka Thursday. The virus was first detected from a sample taken on...
Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar Thursday stated that all five contacts of Omicron infected persons who tested positive for Covid-19 have been isolated and treated at a government hospital. "I am in constant touch with doctors. There is no problem as such. The patients...
New Delhi: Two cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected in Karnataka, the Union government said Thursday while asking people not to panic but follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get vaccinated without delay. Both the patients are men aged 66 years and...
New York: People who survived severe Covid-19 infections are more than twice at risk of dying over the following year, compared with those who experience mild or moderate disease or remain uninfected, finds a study. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, showed...
London: The newly detected Omicron variant of coronavirus is "highly uncertain" but may require a "very stringent response", scientists have said. According to the scientists, it is "highly likely" that Omicron can escape immunity caused by previous infection or vaccination "to some extent". The existing...
Tokyo: Japan confirmed its second case of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 Wednesday, the top government spokesman said. A man in his 20s who arrived from Peru at Narita airport near Tokyo Saturday was confirmed as infected with the Omicron variant, Chief Cabinet Secretary...
Bengaluru: A high alert has been sounded in Mysuru district after 72 students from Kerala, undergoing nursing courses in the city, tested positive for Covid-19, health department officials said Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner Bagadi Gautham has ordered conducting of as many as 5,000 Covid tests in...
Sydney: Research institutes and pharmaceutical company in Australia's state of Victoria have created a new mRNA Covid vaccine candidate, with clinical trials to begin early next year. The vaccine candidate, developed by Monash University researchers, pharmaceutical manufacturer IDT Australia and the Peter Doherty Institute for...
New Delhi: People with blood groups A, B and Rh+ are more susceptible to Covid-19 infection whereas O, AB and Rh- are at lower risk of infection, according to a study released Tuesday by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH). The research, published in the journal...
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