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Pakistan's drones carry explosives, while Indian ones carry life-saving va
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 28 (ANI): Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said that while Pakistan's drones carry explosives to spread terror and threaten human lives, the Indian drone has assumed the role of a COVID warrior to carry life-saving vaccines and life-savi
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Jitendra Singh launches aerial delivery of COVID-19 vaccine through Octaco
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 28 (ANI): Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Saturday launched the first-of-its-kind drone driven aerial delivery facility to transport COVID vaccines as well as emergency medicines to inaccessible and difficult areas in a
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Nepal makes 7-day quarantine mandatory for air travellers from South Afric
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], November 27 (ANI): Nepal has made a week-long quarantine compulsory for those arriving from South African Nations or using any of the nations as transit to prevent contraction of B.1.1.529 or the "Omicron" variant.
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Pfizer, BioNTech not sure on vaccines' effectiveness on new COVID variant
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 27 (ANI): The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech on Saturday issued a statement stating that they are not sure whether their vaccines would be able to help in the treatment of the new COVID-19 variant 'Omicron'.
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South African Health Minister calls travel bans by countries over new COVI
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], November 27 (ANI): South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla on Friday termed the countries' decision of imposing restrictions on travellers from the country amid concerns over the detection of 'Omicron' COVID-19 variant as 'unjustified' and said there is no proo
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COVID vaccine booster doses will be required, immediate studies needed, sa
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 26 (ANI): Emphasising on the requirement of a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines, a top doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) called for immediate studies to be commenced to ascertain its effectiveness on various age groups.
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Opposition leaders who bashed COVID-19 vax are jabbed today: JP Nadda
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], November 25 (ANI): Taking a swipe at the Opposition parties for "misleading people" regarding the COVID-19 vaccines during its initial stage, Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda on Thursday said that they who "bashed the vaccine then and called it name
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New research on immune responses in patients with kidney failure after rec
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 24 (ANI): Death rates from COVID-19 were really high for people with kidney failure who were on dialysis, which made SARS-CoV-2 vaccination a priority for everyone. Recent research compared the immune responses of patients with as well as without kidney failure, alo
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Nagpur civic body not to pay salaries to employees who did not take one or
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], November 24 (ANI): Nagpur Municipal Corporation has decided not to pay salaries to employees who did not take one or both doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Nepal starts inoculating teenagers with anti-COVID vaccines
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], November 23 (ANI): Nepal has started inoculating its teenage population with anti-COVID vaccines. On Monday, those between 12 and below 18 years stood in line to get jabbed as the government rolled the US donated Pfizer vaccine for teenagers or adolescents.
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Serum Institute of India to start Covishield supply to COVAX countries
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], November 22 (ANI): The Serum Institute of India (SII) will start COVID-19 vaccines supply to COVAX countries soon, sources said on Monday.
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New research on developing vaccine for urinary tract infection
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Texas [US], November 22 (ANI): The researchers at the University of Texas are studying the use of whole-cell vaccines to tackle urinary tract infection or UTI as it is a serious issue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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