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S Korea reports 1,418 more COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], August 23 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 1,418 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 237,782.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE Wi-Fi variant to launch soon in India
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], August 22 (ANI): South Korean tech giant Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab S7 FE in India in June, but it only launched the LTE variant of the tablet in the country. Now the company will launch the Wi-Fi version in India soon.
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Antibody protects against broad range of COVID-19 virus variants, study fi
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): The virus that causes COVID-19 today is not the same as the one that made people fall sick way back in December 2019. Many of the variants circulating now are partially resistant to some of the antibody-based therapeutics that were developed based on the ori
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Sensex down 300 points, Tata Steel cracks 8.8 pc
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 20 (ANI): Equity benchmark indices closed over half a per cent lower on Friday with steel stocks being under selling pressure as a sharp plunge in iron ore futures across the world spooked investors.
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OnePlus 9 RT in the works, could launch in October
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Shenzhen [China], August 20 (ANI): OnePlus may be getting ready to launch another variant of its 9 series phones, the OnePlus 9 RT.
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Israel tightening restrictions due to increase in number of delta variant
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel] August 19 (ANI/FENA): New restrictions on controlling the spread of coronavirus came into force in Israel on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called on citizens to get vaccinated, and after the highest daily number of coronavirus infected since January.
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ICMR study in Chennai shows vaccination reduces mortality due to Delta var
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 19 (ANI): An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study conducted in Chennai has found that the Delta variant has the potential to infect both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, but it reduces mortality among the former group.
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Findings help explain why vaccinated people at low risk during delta surge
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 18 (ANI): Despite causing a surge in infections this summer that has resulted in thousands of hospitalizations and deaths, the delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is not particularly good at evading antibodies generated by vaccination, according to a study
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COVID-19: New Zealand PM announces lockdown over single suspected Delta va
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Auckland [New Zealand], August 18 (ANI): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed the first locally transmitted COVID-19 since February.
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Maharashtra: 80 pc samples for genome sequencing test positive for Delta v
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 17 (ANI): Out of the total samples sent for genome sequencing of COVID-19 positive patients in Maharashtra, 80 per cent of samples have tested positive for Delta variant, according to the state health department.
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Ten new cases of Delta Plus variant found in Maharashtra, tally rises to 7
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharastra) [India], August 17 (ANI): As many as ten new cases of Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Maharashtra, according to the state health department.
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Leadership rose to the challenge in second wave of COVID-19, efforts made
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): Noting that the country suffered from a terrible second wave of COVID-19 due to the new variants and other unexpected factors, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Saturday that the leadership rose to the challenge, efforts were made war-footing to plug th
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