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COVID pandemic can't go on forever, will end soon: Expert
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): As India achieved the milestone of cumulative vaccine coverage of 156 crores on the first anniversary of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive that started on January 16, 2021, Dr Kutub Mahmoood, Scientist and Virologist from Washington, DC told ANI
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Study on feasibility of mixing COVID-19 vaccine doses to be available by F
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): The effectiveness of heterologous vaccine doses against new COVID-19 variants is likely to come in six weeks after the trial in the Christian Medical College, Vellore, said top virologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang, on Friday.
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Children should be sent to schools, COVID-19 infection generally not sever
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): With India set to begin vaccination of children in the 15-18 age group from January 3 against coronavirus, Dr Gagandeep Kang, a leading virologist, has said that children should go to schools as COVID-19 infection is not much severe in them.
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We have to learn to live with COVID-19, India better prepared to deal with
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 31 (ANI): Noting that people will have to learn to live with COVID-19 due to the possibility of the emergence of new virus variants, India's leading virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang has said that the country is better prepared to deal with coronavirus amid a rise in cas
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Dr. Gagandeep Kang suggests people to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 as its
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): Suggesting people to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants which will continue to emerge, Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang, however, on Friday said that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is comparatively less severe than other variants.
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COVID-19: Virologists in Bengal's Siliguri suggest speeding up testing in
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], December 2 (ANI): In the wake of the new variant of coronavirus, Omicron, the virologists in West Bengal's Siliguri have suggested increasing the speed of testing in the city as it receives a lot of international travellers and said that the administration sho
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Mixing and matching of vaccines will help overcome shortage: Dr Gagandeep
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): Mixing of COVID-19 vaccines should be done with the ones available in India, Dr Gagandeep Kang, Christian Medical College, Vellore's professor, and top microbiologist and virologist said on Thursday adding that it will help to overcome the vaccine shortage.
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COVID-19: Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang suggests reopening of schools in ph
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): As the COVID-19 cases in the past few weeks decreased significantly after the nation witnessed a ravaging second wave in April-May, India's top virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang on Thursday said that schools should be reopened in a phased manner with vaccinat
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Number of cases in third COVID wave will depend on variants and strains: D
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): IIT Kanpur and IIT Hyderabad have predicted the third wave of COVID-19 in mid-August that will see a rise in cases in October, but top microbiologist and virologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang said that this will depend on the type of variants, and added that if
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Report reveals Wuhan virologist who researched on bat coronaviruses had ti
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing (China) June 30 (ANI): A top Chinese Virologist from Wuhan Institute of Virology has ties to military scientists of China who had been helping her in coronavirus research.
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Doubts about China's transparency on the COVID-19 pandemic origins piling
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Jesse Bloom, a virologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, discovered the deletion of some early sequences of coronavirus from Wuhan which were missing from the Sequence Read Archive, a public archive of high through
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China deleted COVID-19 data in possible cover-up: Report
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 24 (ANI): Amid the resurgence of lab leak theory of COVID-19, a new report has revealed that China deleted early coronavirus data in a possible bid to conceal its origins -- hence impeding the World Health Organization's investigation's (WHO) probe of the virus.
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