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Air monitor can identify Covid-19 virus in five minutes
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Scientists are investigating techniques to monitor indoor environment in real time for viruses now that the Covid-19 pandemic's emergency phase is over. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a real-time monitor that can identify any SARS-CoV-2 virus variant in a ro
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Researchers develop computer model to show ways to curb COVID-19 spread
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], February 9 (ANI): Technology has proved to be a major source of hope in the global fight against COVID-19. In wake of this, researchers at the University of Waterloo created the first computational model that simulated many variables affecting the transmission of COVID-19 t
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We have to learn to live with COVID-19, India better prepared to deal with
Updated : 4 years, 4 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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Augnito announces its AI Week of Rest: 'All In' to recharge, prevent burno
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 24 (ANI/PNN): Augnito, India's 1st advanced medical Voice to Text software powering the healthcare industry, has given its full-time employees a week off to recharge and take time off as workplaces around the world head into the new year amidst the new
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Scientists identify new antibody for COVID-19, variants
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 2 (ANI): Research collaboration between scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified and tested an antibody that limits the severity of infections from a variety of coronaviruses, including those that cause COVID-1
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Antibody protects against broad range of COVID-19 virus variants, study fi
Updated : 4 years, 9 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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Myanmar to reclose schools due to COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], July 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar will temporarily close all schools of basic education once again, due to the recent detection of highly infectious COVID-19 virus variants in the Asian country, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports late Thursday.
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Parliamentary panel meet on Covid, discusses 3rd wave status, preparation,
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Parliamentary standing committee on Home Affairs, headed by Congress MP Anand Sharma on Monday took stock of India's preparedness to deal with a possible COVID-19 third wave, efficacy of available vaccines against new virus variants and concerns over the
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Engineering nanobodies as lifesavers when SARS-CoV-2 variants attack
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 22 (ANI): Scientists at Ohio State University are pursuing a new strategy in the protracted fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus by engineering nanobodies that can neutralise virus variants in two different ways.
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Possible 3rd COVID wave not more likely to affect children, WHO-AIIMS surv
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): A third possible wave in India by the prevailing COVID-19 virus variant is unlikely to disproportionately affect children than adults, a seroprevalence study conducted by the World Health Organisation and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has re
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Germany bars visitors from Britain, N Ireland over Covid variants of conce
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Berlin [Germany], May 22 (ANI): Travellers from Britain and Northern Ireland will be barred from Sunday from entering Germany, which has classified the United Kingdom as a Covid-19 virus variant area of concern region.
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WHO urges all to refer virus variants by their scientific names
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): After several media reports referred to B.1.617 variant as 'Indian Variant', the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday clarified that it does not identify viruses or variants with names of countries they are first reported from.
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