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Russian health watchdog detects Omicron subvariant BA.4 in population
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 12 (ANI/Sputnik): 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.
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Russian Health Watchdog Detects Omicron Subvariant BA.4 in Population
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 12 (ANI/Sputnik): 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.
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Target protein for diabetes can help to protect against Alzheimer's diseas
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 5 (ANI): Mechanisms associated with a particular diabetes drug can also help to protect against Alzheimer's disease suggests a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
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Sputnik V demonstrates strong protection against Omicron variant: Study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 24 (ANI): Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology on Wednesday said that Sputnik V demonstrated strong protection against Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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COVID-19: Omicron gradually replacing Delta variant in many states, says t
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) Head of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Dr Samiran Panda on Tuesday said that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is gradually replacing the Delta variant in many states across the country.
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Fifth COVID-19 wave hits Hungary
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Budapest [Hungry], January 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by the Omicron variant has hit Hungary, Bela Merkely, rector of Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest and leader of the Clinical Epidemiology Working Group, said on public television M1 on Friday.
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Omicron a serious issue, India has taken it very seriously: Dr Mohan Gupte
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): Omicron is a differently mutated virus and India has taken the variant very seriously, said Dr Mohan Gupte (retd), the founder-director of ICMR Epidemiology Department in Chennai on Wednesday.
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Omicron variant could replace Delta strain globally: Head of Russian Gamal
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The Omicron strain of the coronavirus could eventually replace the Delta variant, as it is already happening in South Africa, Alexander Gintsburg, the director of Russia's Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, told Sputnik.
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Omicron-infected patients from S. Africa who arrived in Russia were vaccin
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Patients infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, who arrived in Russia from South Africa, were earlier vaccinated, their disease is mild, Alexander Gintsburg, director of Russia's Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Micr
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Ultra-processed foods increase risk of second heart attack or stroke
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 30 (ANI): Ultra-processed foods have potential adverse effects on the health of an individual as now a study by the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of the I.R.C.C.S. Neuromedin Pozzilli (Italy) explores the health effects of a large dietary share of ultra-
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India has been ramping up health infrastructure rapidly, this will boost I
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India]. October 15 (ANI): Describing India's achievements during the COVID-19 crisis, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that indigenous capacity building, be it in human resources or vaccination, India has been ramping up health infrastru
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Russia's Sputnik Light vaccine is 70 pc effective against Delta variant of
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 13 (ANI): Sputnik Light, Russia's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, has been found to demonstrate 70 per cent efficacy against infection with the Delta variant during the first three months after vaccination.
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