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Saudi Arabia suspends entry from UAE, Ethiopia, Vietnam over COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], July 3 (ANI/Sputnik): Saudi Arabia has suspended entry for citizens of the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Vietnam over the spread of the coronavirus and its strains in these countries, media reported.
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At least 19 COVID-19 strains identified in Brazil
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 15 (ANI/Sputnik): At least 19 variants of coronavirus have been identified in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biologic research center, said in a statement.
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Microbial resistance is promoted by global travellers
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): A new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that new and potentially deadly strains of antimicrobial-resistant superbugs might be coming to a community near you carried like stowaways in the guts of international travelle
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No need to vaccinate people who had documented COVID-19 infection, suggest
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): A group of public health experts, including doctors from AIIMS and members from the national task force on COVID-19, has recommended that there is no need to vaccinate people who had documented COVID-19 infection and underlined that mass, indiscriminate,
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Global travellers pick up numerous genes that promote microbial resistance
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 7 (ANI): Carried like stowaways in the guts of international travellers, new and potentially deadly strains of antimicrobial-resistant superbugs may be coming to a community near you, suggests new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Delta variant prime suspect in COVID-19 cases across Varanasi: Study
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi has collaboratively sequenced genomes of coronavirus variants in Varanasi and adjoining areas and have come across at least seven major strains of
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi announces NOVID Act to protect US from risk of
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US] May 20, (ANI): Following new CDC guidance that fully vaccinated Americans can remove masks and resume normal activities, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi on Wednesday (local time) announced the Nullifying Opportunities for Variants to Infect and Decimate (NOVID) Act, an exp
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New anti-COVID drug 'should work against various strains': DRDO Chairperso
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): The Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) new anti-COVID drug 2-DG should work against various strains of the COVID-19 virus, DRDO chairperson Dr G Satheesh Reddy said on Monday.
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Senior virologist Shahid Jameel quits as Chairman of Centre's Covid genome
Updated : 5 years 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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COVAXIN effective against coronavirus strains found in India, UK
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): Vaccination with Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine - COVAXIN, has produced neutralising titres (concentration) against all key emerging variants tested, including the B.1.617 and B.1.1.7, first identified in India and the United Kingdom, the vaccine manufa
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Pak's Punjab witnessing coronavirus cases with multiple COVID-19 strains:
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): As the deadly third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Pakistan, the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department has uploaded a fresh study that says the country's Punjab province has been facing circulation of multiple strains of coronavirus with
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Russia's single-dose Sputnik Light vaccine has 79.4 pc efficacy, effective
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 6 (ANI): Russian developers of the Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday said that their single-dose Sputnik Light vaccine demonstrated 79.4 per cent efficacy against the COVID-19 and it has proven effective against all new strains of coronavirus.
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