World Corona Covid19 News

11/08/2022

Revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks to minimize COVID-19's disruption of daily life while conceding that the pandemic isn't over. https://n.pr/3dq2iI0

28/07/2022

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A 66-year-old man with HIV is in long-term remission after receiving a transplant of blood stem cells containing a rare mutation, raising the prospect that doctors may someday be able to use gene editing to re-create the mutation and cure patients of the virus that causes AIDS, a medical team announced Wednesday.

For now, the crucial virus-defeating mutation is rare, leaving the treatment unavailable to the vast majority of the 38 million patients living with HIV, including over 1.2 million in the United States. Bone marrow transplants also carry significant risk and have been used only on HIV patients who have developed cancer.

The patient, who had lived more than half his life with the virus, is among a handful of people who went into remission after receiving stem cells from a donor with the rare mutation, said doctors from City of Hope, a cancer and research center in Duarte, Calif., who treated him. https://wapo.st/3Q1hJEy

21/07/2022

US President has started taking Pfizer’s antiviral pill and has ‘very mild symptoms’

14/07/2022

The Centre has asked States and Union Territories to ensure availability of Sputnik V vaccine and functionality of private COVID Vaccination Centres to increase the uptake of precaution dose of Sputnik vaccine.

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written a letter to all Chief Secretaries and Administrators of States and Union Territories in this regard. He said that the uptake of precaution dose of Sputnik vaccine is only five per cent of those who are due for it.

Mr Bhushan said, private COVID Vaccination Centres, which were providing Sputnik vaccine, should reach out to the due beneficiaries to get their second and precaution doses.

States and UTs have also been asked to eastablish targeted communication for the due beneficiaries of precaution dose of Sputnik V.

28/05/2022

Covid-weary Americans enter summer with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic.

27/04/2022

The company said it conducted clinical trials in paediatric population between June 2021 to September 2021 and results have shown robust safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity.

02/04/2022

XE is a "recombinant" which is a mutation of BA'1 and BA.2 Omicron strains.

Read more: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/new-covid-variant-xe-found-in-uk-more-transmissible-than-omicron-who-2858643

27/02/2022

Together, they represent a significant salvo in the debate over the beginnings of a pandemic that has killed nearly 6 million people globally and sickened more than 400 million.

06/02/2022

To make wearing masks more convenient a team of Indian scientists have developed a self-disinfecting antiviral mask to fight the disease.

04/02/2022

02/02/2022

A South Korean company has released a new mask designed to help people feel more comfortable dining indoors by covering just their nose while they are eating or drinking. Behold: the “kosk.”

30/01/2022

has put the mental health & well-being of children & young people at risk. The impact on families & societies could linger for years.

UNICEF is calling for urgent support & more investment in mental health services.

20/01/2022

17/01/2022

India has been able to achieve the milestone of administering over 156 crore doses.

12/01/2022

The Economist explains

10/01/2022

Immunity against COVID-19 is a complex picture, and while there is evidence of waning antibody levels six months after vaccination, T-cells are also believed to play a vital role in providing protection

09/01/2022

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08/01/2022

Brahmadev Mandal's claims had rasied serious questions about the integrity of Bihar's vaccination data.

08/01/2022

Learn how the Army's SpFN is different from the mRNA vaccines, what it will do and when it could be available.

05/01/2022

'What we can expect to see in India is a surge of Omicron cases. I think it is just the beginning now in some of the cities and is going to infect a lot of people'

04/01/2022

Discovered in 12 patients in Marseilles, southern France, the new “atypical combination” variant traced to a Cameroon returnee has 46 mutations and 36 deletions, as per a published paper.

02/01/2022

Two studies suggest this line of defense reduces Omicron’s severity.

01/01/2022

The burning questions: What makes this newly identified variant so transmissible?. And what does it mean for preventing spread?

31/12/2021

The ambition is to create a low-cost, open-source alternative to expensive and limited supply mRNA vaccines for developing and under-vaccinated countries.

25/12/2021

25/12/2021

The Centre has said that Remdesivir drug should only be used in patients with moderate to severe Covid-19 and those with no renal or hepatic dysfunction within 10 days of the onset of any symptom.

It also warned against use of the drug in patients who are not on oxygen support or in home settings.

25/12/2021

A handful of factors are contributing to the blurring of symptoms among viruses, including omicron’s characteristics, the way symptoms present in vaccinated people and the rise in cold and flu cases compared to last year’s pandemic winter.

24/12/2021

While experts are still struggling to understand the nature of this new variant to chalk out the preventive strategy, another variant has come to the fore.

24/12/2021

The newly-discovered fast-spreading Omicron variant has been behind the rapid surge in cases in Europe, Africa and the United States in the last one month. The variant has now spread to 106 countries, WHO reported.

22/12/2021

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