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World Bank approves additional financing for Kerala climate resilience pro
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The World Bank's Board of Directors have approved a $150 million loan to support the 'Resilient Kerala Program' to continue strengthening the state's preparedness against natural disasters, climate change impacts, and disease outbreaks.
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Ocean warming can trigger viral outbreaks within corals
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The breathtaking colours of reef-building corals come from photosynthetic algae that live inside the corals. A groundbreaking three-year study has found that viruses may increase their attacks on these symbiotic algae during marine heat waves.
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UAE issues travel advisory against dangerous Marburg virus
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Disease is passed on to people from fruit bats and is from the same virus family responsible for the deadly Ebola. Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are facing outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious and deadly disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said earl
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Indian Air Travel is now at 85 per cent of 2019 level, says IATA
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In India, with concerns of new COVID-19 outbreaks fading, airlines saw a significant improvement in domestic air travel as well as revenue. India's domestic RPKs (revenue passenger kilometres) rose 48.8 per cent last year compared with 2021.
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Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
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Sudden COVID-19 outbreaks depict lack of efficacy of Chinese vaccines: Rep
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Turkish government which initially accepted Chinese vaccines is now scrutinising its efficacy after learning of China's involvement in data tempering of side effects only to enhance its vaccine sale.
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Fresh signs COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in China
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
After China abandoned its restrictive "zero Covid" policy about two weeks ago, regional numbers of infected persons with coronavirus point to explosive outbreaks and overstretched healthcare systems, writes Chang Che, Asia technology correspondent for The New York Times (NYT).
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Sudden COVID outbreaks in China point towards lack of efficacy of Chinese
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Rising COVID cases in China act as a cause of concern, especially for countries that China supplies its vaccines to.
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World Bank cuts 2022 China growth forecast to 2.7 pc from 4.3 pc predicted
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In a report -- Navigating Uncertainty, China's Economy in 2023 -- by World Bank, the lender said that confronted with the most widespread outbreaks since the beginning of the pandemic, the continued evolution of China's public health policies will be crucial, both to mitigate public health r
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Global cholera surge likely accelerated by climate change, warns WHO
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
"The situation is quite unprecedented, for not only we are seeing more outbreaks, but these outbreaks are larger and more deadly than the ones we have seen in past years," said Barboza. "This increasing number of cholera outbreaks is occurring after several years of regular reduction in the
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Chinese vaccines proven ineffective becoming problem for world: Report
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Repeated explosive outbreaks of Covid in China along with tested and proven lack of effectiveness of its vaccines, has created a problem for its own citizens and people around the world, The Singapore Post, a news outlet with an online portfolio reported.
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67-year-old Pune man found Zika virus positive
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A case was found infected with the Zika virus in the Bavdhan area of Pune. Entomological survey of the Zika virus across Pune city to mitigate future outbreaks.
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