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India's focus must be how to come out of current COVID crisis, says Canadi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): High Commissioner of Canada to India, Nadir Patel on Tuesday said that the focus should not be on the rise in coronavirus cases in India due to the B1617 virus variant rather on how to assist to address this situation so that the crisis is mitigated.
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WHO classifies B1617 COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, as varia
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): The coronavirus variant B1617 first identified in India last year has been classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official informed on Monday.
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Novavax COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in UK trial, but drops against S
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], March 12 (ANI): Novavax on Thursday said that final data from a trial in the United Kingdom shows its COVID-19 vaccine is almost 90 per cent effective, but the vaccine was far less effective in a separate trial in South Africa, given the virus variant there that has raised co
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COVID-19 variant N440K spreading more in southern states: CSIR-CCMB
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 20 (ANI): The Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) said there is emerging evidence that coronavirus variant N440K is spreading "a lot more" in southern states in the country.
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Seoul may consider purchasing Sputnik V, other vaccines due to new coronav
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], February 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said that the South Korean government would likely to consider buying Russia's Sputnik V and other coronavirus vaccines to curb the spread of new virus variants and forestall delays in deliverie
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AstraZeneca's vaccine less protective against virus variant in South Afric
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], February 8 (ANI): South Africa is pausing the country's rollout of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after a study showed it offered reduced protection from the COVID-19 variant first identified there, CNN reported citing South African health officials on Sunday (
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Florida becomes 3rd US state to report new coronavirus variant case
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Florida [US], January 1 (ANI): Florida on Friday reported its first case of the new coronavirus strain that was discovered in the United Kingdom (UK), making it the third US state to report the virus variant.
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Philippines logs 1,885 new COVID-19 cases, President to convene meeting ov
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], December 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines on Friday reported 1,885 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number in the country to 467,601.
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