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India, Central Asian countries call for non-discriminatory response to glo
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): Noting the growing interdependence of countries in an inter-connected world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of five Central Asian countries on Thursday called for transparent and non-discriminatory international response to global health chal
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IIT Mandi researchers plot COVID-19, past pandemics across seasons, give r
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi identified the states with a high probability of being the first hotspots for the spread of COVID-19. The researchers reviewed the spread of COVID-19 and past pandemics in India for this study
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Deliberations ongoing for a global treaty to deal with future pandemics: W
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 20 (ANI): Amid the unabated spread of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus, World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Monday said that discussions are taking place at the global level on whether there is need for an in
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Social inequality, AIDS, pandemics are interrelated: Union Health Secretar
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): Social inequality, AIDS and pandemics are interrelated, said Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan here on Wednesday.
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MoS Bharati Pravin Pawar chairs World AIDS Day celebrations
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): Aligning with the theme of World AIDS Day 2021 "End Inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics", the Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar emphasized on the need to focus and tackle gender inequalities, discrimination again
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First meeting of WHO body to discuss new pandemics treaty to be held on Ma
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that the first meeting of the organization's commission to discuss new treaty on the COVID-19 pandemic will take place on March 1, 2022, and its
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World 'dangerously unprepared' for future pandemics unless leaders tackle
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 30 (ANI): Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million AIDS-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) warned on Monday in a new report.
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WHO establishes new group to study origins of coronavirus
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 14 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an expert group that will study the origins of new pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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Kazakhstan: EAM Jaishankar emphasises CICA's relevance in addressing conte
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], October 12 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday emphasised the relevance of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures (CICA) Ministerial 2021 in addressing contemporary challenges, including terrorism, pandemics and protection
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Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa to study intersection of COVID-19,
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): A consortium of doctors and researchers from India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa have partnered to conduct a study on the epidemiological impact and intersection of the COVID-19 and Tuberculosis pandemics in these countries, Ministry of Science and Tec
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Iran sets a new record for the number of COVID infected in one day
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tehran (Iran) July 21 (ANI/FENA): Iran set another record number of daily cases of the infection on Tuesday, even at the time a lockdown was introduced in Tehran and its environs, a week-long measure to stem another wave of pandemics.
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AI predicts how patients will fare against viral infections
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): Gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections provide a map to help define patients' immune responses, measure disease severity, predict outcomes and test therapies, for current and future pandemics.
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