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COVID-19 origin: New life to Wuhan lab-leak theory
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Eighteen months since China reported the first patient with Covid-19 like symptoms, the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread like wildfire over the world claiming the lives of over 35 lakh people and infecting over 16.8 crore in more than 180 countries.
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WHO scientists likely to reconsider China lab origin theory of Covid-19
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 26 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) is expected to restudy the "dominant theory" that the SARS-CoV-2 probably originated and spread across the world from China's Wuhan lab, according to reports.
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Study on harnessing next generation sequencing to detect SARS-CoV-2
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], May 25 (ANI): During the pandemic, it is extremely critical to detect the virus at the beginning stage, and in a move to achieve the same a team of researchers at the Vienna BioCenter designed a testing protocol for SARS-CoV-2 that can process tens of thousands of samples i
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Structural details of how SARS-CoV-2 variants escape immune response revea
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
California [US], May 21 (ANI): Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination. A new study by a team of researchers has revealed key details of how these
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Newly identified antibody can be targeted by HIV vaccines: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 20 (ANI): A newly-identified group of antibodies that binds to a coating of sugars on the outer shell of HIV is effective in neutralizing the virus and points to a novel vaccine approach that could also potentially be used against SARS-CoV-2 and fungal pathogens, researc
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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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Lack of transparency over military accidents haunts China
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China] May 18 (ANI): The Chinese government is not disposed to transparency regarding its military accidents and experts belive that Military commissioner and former president Jiang Zemin acknowledged the tragic incident on May 2, 2003 of Ming class 361 in which all the 70 crew mem
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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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Chinese scientists discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses 5 years befor
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 9 (ANI): A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a "new era of genetic weapons" that could be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleash
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