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Aerosols carrying Covid-19 virus can travel in air up to 10 meters: Centre
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): Cautioning people to maintain social distance to prevent the transmission of the Covid-19 virus, the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India on Thursday said that aerosols, one of the key transmission mode of the SARS-CoV-2, c
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Evidence shows COVID-19 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab, from
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wa
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Senior virologist Shahid Jameel quits as Chairman of Centre's Covid genome
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of cir
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Fatigue, mood disorders associated with post-coronavirus syndrome: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 12 (ANI): Patients diagnosed with post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as 'PCS', 'COVID-19 long-haul syndrome' and 'Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS COV-2', experience symptoms such as mood disorders, fatigue, and perceived cognitive impairment that can negatively affect return
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Community circulation of SARS-CoV-2 virions
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 11 (ANI): Researchers analysed around 72,500 human saliva samples for SARS-CoV-2 at the University of Colorado, Boulder and found that asymptomatic individuals on the college campus carried just as much virus as individuals hospitalised with COVID-19.
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Organ transplant recipients remain vulnerable to COVID-19 even after secon
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- confers some protection for people who have received solid organ transplants, it's still not enough to enable them to dispense with COVID
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SARS-CoV-2 DNA integration into host genomes
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): A study finds that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from the SARS-CoV-2 virus can integrate into host genomes, potentially explaining why some people continue to test positive for COVID-19 via PCR tests without any detectable infectious virus.
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COVID-19 vaccination associated with fewer asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infecti
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): Vaccination dramatically reduced COVID-19 symptomatic and asymptomatic infections in St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employees compared with their unvaccinated peers, according to a research letter.
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New research analyzes more palatable alternatives to control SARS-CoV-2 sp
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, intense social distancing and lockdown measures were the primary weapon in the fight against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but they came with a monumental societal burden. New research from the Center for the Ecology of Inf
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Researchers discover long-acting injectable medicine as potential route to
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Liverpool [UK], May 5 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Liverpool have shown the potential of repurposing an existing and cheap drug into a long-acting injectable therapy that could be used to treat Covid-19.
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Eight Asiatic lions housed in Hyderabad zoo infected with COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 4 (ANI): Eight Asiatic lions housed in the Nehru Zoological Park (NZP) Hyderabad have tested positive for SARS-CoV2 virus.
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Greater risk of poor COVID outcomes in minority ethnic groups in England:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Cambridge [England], May 1 (ANI): Minority ethnic groups had a higher risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of COVID-19-related hospitalisations, intensive care (ICU) admissions and death compared with white groups in England, according to an observational study published in The Lancet
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