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Over 2.1 million in US receive first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 29 (ANI): Over two million individuals in the United States have received the first of two coronavirus vaccine shots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data revealed on Monday.
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Health Ministry launches India's first fully indigenous pneumococcal vacci
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Monday inaugurated India's first Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in a bid to prevent about 67,800 child mortality under 5 years of age in India from pneumococcal diseases every year.
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Research highlights importance of forgotten organ in ensuring healthy preg
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 28 (ANI): An international research team led by the University of British Columbia (UBC) has uncovered for the first time the importance of a small gland tucked behind the sternum that works to prevent miscarriage and diabetes in pregnant women.
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South Korea reports its first cases of new coronavirus variant
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], December 28 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea has confirmed the first three cases of the new coronavirus strain in the country, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
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Latvia registers record 44 COVID-19 deaths in single day
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Riga [Latvia], December 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Latvia has registered 44 new fatalities linked to COVID-19, setting the all-time record, the country's Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC) said on Sunday.
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Philippines extends UK travel ban amid new virus strain
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], December 27 (ANI): In a bid to prevent the entry of new coronavirus strain in the country, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday extended the ban on all flights from the United Kingdom for two more weeks, reported Manila Times.
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Special PMLA Court remands PFI leader KA Rauf Sheriff to 14-day judicial c
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], December 26 (ANI): A special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) Court on Saturday remanded KA Rauf Sheriff, national general secretary of Campus Front of India (CFI)-the student organization of Popular Front of India (PFI) to 14-day judicial custody.
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Resistance to certain cancer therapies may be caused by loss of anti-tumou
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 26 (ANI): According to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, the absence of a protein that works to prevent tumour formation may explain why some patients are resistant to common cancer therapy.
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Guidelines to prevent, contain spread of mutant variant of coronavirus soo
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 26 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Saturday said that the state Health Department will discuss matters concerned with prevention and containment of new variant of coronavirus and come up with the guidelines regarding the same.
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India, Bangladesh hold border talks, decide to construct single row fence
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): Several decisions including identification of vulnerable areas and conduct of joint night patrols to prevent crime and nab criminals were taken at the five-day 51st Director General (DG) level border coordination conference between Border Security For
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TRS leaders taken into preventive custody for trying to protest outside BJ
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Jagtial (Telangana) [India], December 25 (ANI): A number of ruling Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) leaders were taken into preventive custody by the police as they tried to protest in front of a pre-planned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) meeting here.
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Wrote to Mamata govt to avail PM KISAN benefits for Bengal's farmers: Nare
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of blocking the PM KISAN scheme for farmers in West Bengal due to political reasons, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said that he wrote a letter to B
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