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Manipur reports first case of JN.1 sub-variant of COVID-19
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Manipur reported a fresh case of COVID-19 after a prolonged period without new infections. The infected individual, who hails from Paomata in Senapati district, had travelled from Delhi to Dimapur by air and subsequently from Dimapur to Senapati by road.
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19 teams working in the field to trace contacts of Nipah patients: Kerala
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Minister Veena George began by highlighting the extensive efforts made to trace and identify individuals who may have come in contact with the infected individuals.
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Study: HIV speeds up body's aging processes soon after infection
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
HIV has an "early and substantial" impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues.
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Research shows new coronavirus antibody detection method that does not req
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 1 (ANI): In spite of significant and impressive advances in vaccine technology, the global COVID-19 pandemic is over by any means. An important challenge in limiting the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is identifying the infected ind
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Mask 'not mandatory', says Maharashtra Health Minister amid surge in COVID
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 4 (ANI): Clarifying the state's stance on the letter sent by the Centre to five states to closely monitor emerging clusters of COVID-19 cases and maintain an adequate number of tests, and send samples from infected individuals for genome sequencing, Maharas
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Centre asks 5 states to monitor clusters of COVID-19 cases, follow five-fo
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): The Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written a letter to the officials of five states including Kerala, Karanataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu to closely monitor emerging clusters of COVID-19 cases and maintain an adequate number of te
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Showing different types of COVID-19 data influences pandemic behaviour, su
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada] March 6 (ANI): The reaction of people to the pandemic has a lot of influence on how well they can hold up in stressful situations. In this light, a new U of T Scarborough study found that showing COVID-19 data in a certain way can influence how seriously people viewed the pa
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Single Covaxin jab in previously COVID infected individuals equivalent to
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 28 (ANI): A single dose of Covaxin for previously COVID-19 infected individuals is equivalent to two doses of the vaccine in infection-naive individuals, suggests the pilot study of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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Exposure density and neighbourhood disparities in COVID-19 infection risk:
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], March 17 (ANI): Researchers report that neighbourhood changes in exposure density--a measure of activity associated with increased risk of exposure to COVID-19-infected individuals--in New York City in response to a statewide stay-at-home order were associated with COVID-19
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Study: Managing aerosol lining could reduce COVID-19 spread
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 10 (ANI): Researchers have suggested that stabilizing airway lining mucus in aerosol infected individuals might help manage the spread of COVID-19, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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New COVID-19 testing approach measures patients' immune response for bette
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 7 (ANI): Researchers from UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub) have developed a new approach for COVID-19 testing that detects a distinct pattern of immune gene expression in infected individuals.
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Study focuses on evidence that coronavirus superspreading is fat-tailed
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 7 (ANI): In a recent study, scientists discovered that --Superspreaders--, infected individuals who result in an outsized number of secondary causes, is believed to underlie a significant fraction of total SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
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