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Study on brain on how to slow down climate change
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], January 3 (ANI): A study by the University of Bern has now used brain stimulation to demonstrate that the ability to sympathize with the future victims of climate change encourages sustainable behaviour.
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'If we end inequity, we end COVID-19 pandemic': WHO chief
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 1 (ANI): As the world enters its third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was confident that the pandemic will end in 2022 "if we end inequity" together.
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Vaccines still effective against Omicron as T cell immunity holds up bette
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 30 (ANI): Emphasising that the Omicron variant is infecting both vaccinated and unvaccinated people worldwide, WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has said that it appears that vaccines are still proving to be effective because even though the numbers
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Omicron variant leading to tsunami of COVID cases: WHO chief
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 30 (ANI): The World Health Organisation's chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the Omicron variant is very transmissible and is leading to a tsunami of COVID cases.
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Omicron risk remains 'very high', says WHO
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 29 (ANI): The overall risk related to the new variant of concern Omicron remains "very high", the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday as the world continues to witness the surge in global COVID-19 cases.
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Pakistan faces innovation deficiency due to low literacy rate, poor invest
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 28 (ANI): Pakistan faces innovation deficiency due to low literacy rate, poor on-job training and lack of significant investment in education, reported local media.
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COVAX targets 70 pc COVID-19 immunization coverage by mid-2022
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 24 (ANI): Amid possible need for variant-specific vaccines, changes to vaccination policies, country preference for some products over others, the programmatic complexity of managing multiple products, and the need for better intelligence on country-level plann
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Global Action Group holds meet on Afghanistan, speakers slam Pak's role in
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], December 23 (ANI): The Parliamentarians for Global Action Group, an international network of legislators from around the world, held a virtual biannual strategic meet on December 21 on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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All reports on migrant murders on border should be investigated by Poland:
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 23 (ANI/Sputnik): It is up to Polish authorities to investigate all claims made by a defected Polish soldier concerning the murders of migrants on the border with Belarus, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Senior Communications Officer Katerina Kitidi told Sput
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Academic education can positively affect aging of brain: Study
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], December 22 (ANI): The benefits of good education and lifelong learning extend into old age. The initial findings of a long-term study show that certain degenerative processes are reduced in the brains of academics. Their brains are better able to compensate for age-relat
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COVID vaccine booster doses can't be ticket to go ahead with planned celeb
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 22 (ANI): Blanket booster programmes of COVID-19 vaccines are likely to prolong the pandemic, rather than ending it by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate, s
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Over 3.3 mn lives lost due to COVID this year, 2022 must be year we end pa
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 21 (ANI): Noting that over 3.3 million people have lost their lives to COVID-19 this year - more deaths than from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined in 2020 -- WHO has said that "2022 must be the year we end the pandemic".
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