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Local self-govts continue to help mitigate Covid-19 spread in Kerala
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 19 (ANI): Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, local self-governments in Kerala have played a vital role in containing the spread of the infectious virus since it broke out last year.
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Evidence shows COVID-19 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab, from
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wa
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Both Pfizer, Moderna vaccines effective on B.1.617 COVID-19 strain: US Stu
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna work against B.1.617 variant of the virus that was first identified in India, according to a new study.
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Amid looming shortfall of doses, UNICEF calls for global, equitable distri
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], May 18 (ANI): Warning of a COVID-19 vaccine shortfall of nearly 190 million doses by next month, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Monday called for a global, equitable distribution of vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics to curb the spread of the viru
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Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 18 (ANI): The early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 can predict the level of protection they will have to the virus over time, according to analysis from Australian mathematicians, clinicians, and scientists, and published the journa
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New anti-COVID drug 'should work against various strains': DRDO Chairperso
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): The Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) new anti-COVID drug 2-DG should work against various strains of the COVID-19 virus, DRDO chairperson Dr G Satheesh Reddy said on Monday.
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16 COVID-19 variants found active in Uttarakhand, says state health dept
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 17 (ANI): At least 16 variants of coronavirus have been found active in Uttarakhand, according to a report of samples sent by the state government for genome sequencing for the virus.
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Digital marketing expert Sandeep Vashist advises how to be cautious from "
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI/PNN): We are living in the era of Covid-19 where "Work From Home" culture is the new normal. Today most IT companies are offering work from home for their employees to keep them safe from this virus.
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Senior virologist Shahid Jameel quits as Chairman of Centre's Covid genome
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of cir
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COVID-19: Telangana receives 200 oxygen concentrators from China-based com
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 16 (ANI): Amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Telangana on Sunday received 200 oxygen concentrators from a China-based company to aid the state in the fight against the deadly virus.
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Best time to take COVID test is after 1-2 days of symptoms: Dr Lal PathLab
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Amid thrust to ramp up testing as the country deals with a surge in the COVID-19 cases in the second wave of pandemic, Dr Lal PathLabs Managing Director Dr Arvind Lal on Saturday said the best time to get a test done to check the presence of the virus is one
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THINKING AHEAD: American India Foundation to set up Oxygen Plants across 2
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (BusinessWire India): American India Foundation (AIF), on Thursday confirmed, that in collaboration with Paytm, Indian Biogas Association, Foundation For Innovation & Research In Science & Technology and Acquafront Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., it is set to roll
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