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China witnesses fresh wave of Covid cases from XBB variants
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to official media sources, quoted by The Washington Post, leading Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan on Monday said that two new vaccinations for the XBB omicron subvariants (including XBB. 1.9.1, XBB. 1.5, and XBB. 1.16) have been given preliminary approval.
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China detects 275 new Covid-19 subvariants in a week
Updated : 3 years ago IST
On Saturday last, China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced that over 275 new Covid-19 subvariants were detected in the country within 7 days.
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'Lack of transparency by China over Omicron subvariants reason...': Price
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The United States on Wednesday said that the restrictions imposed on flyers from China are because of the "lack of adequate and transparent" data from Beijing over the omicron subvariants that has the potential to spread beyond its borders.
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Omicron subvariants BA.5.2, BF.7 responsible for latest COVID outbreak in
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In a statement, WHO said that the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) held a meeting with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday and said, "The China CDC analysis showed a predominance of Omicron lineages BA.5.2 and BF.7 among locally acquired in
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Covid variant XBB.1.5 account for over 40pc of cases in US
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to the CDC, the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant as of this week has pushed out the BQ.1 and the BQ.1.1 subvariants from their previous positions as the most detected coronavirus mutations.
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Maharasthra Covid cases up; new Omicron subvariants BQ.1, XBB reported fro
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 18 (ANI): Maharashtra has recorded a 17.7 per cent rise in coronavirus cases compared to last week, according to a state health department bulletin.
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COVID-19 deaths rose in last 5 weeks with some countries showing increase
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 27 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said that COVID-19 deaths are on the rise for the last five weeks with some countries witnessing increasing trends in hospitalizations.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations on rise in Czech Republic
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Prague [Czech Republic], July 23 (ANI/Xinhua): The Czech Republic has reported rising COVID-19 hospitalizations since the end of June due to the more contagious subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 of the Omicron variant.
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COVID-19 rate rises again in Mongolia
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Ulan Bator [Mongolia], July 21 (ANI/Xinhua): The incidence rate of COVID-19 rose again in Mongolia due to the prevalence of the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, the country's health ministry said Thursday.
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Daily new fever cases drop below 10,000 in North Korea
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): About 9,600 fever cases were reported in the past 24 hours through 0900 GMT on Friday in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), with zero deaths, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday.
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12 cases of Omicron subvariants detected in Tamil Nadu
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 6 (ANI): As many as 12 people tested positive for the new subvariants of COVID BA.4 and BA.5 in Tamil Nadu, as per state Health Minister M Subramanian.
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BA.4, BA.5 are quite mild, behaving like other Omicron sub-variants: Exper
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): As India has been witnessing the subvariants of Omicron, Dr Tarun Kumar Sahni, Internal medicine and hyperbaric Oxygen therapist at Indraprastha Apollo hospital on Tuesday clarified that the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages are quite "mild" because they are behav
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