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The study has been posted on a preprint server medRxiv. Preprints are yet to be peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal. The multi-institutional research, which is led by a…
The continent reported nearly two million new cases last week, the highest since the pandemic began, and more than half of the global COVID-19 deaths this month were in Europe.…
In an email, Leena Menghaney, South Asia Head of Médecins Sans Frontières’s Access Campaign, says that the voluntary license will exclude India from even supplying raw materials (active pharmaceutical ingredients)…
In an email, Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology at CMC Vellore explains the significance of paxlovid antiviral for treatment, its mode of action, and the need for a combination…
No new variant in India According to INSACOG, AY4.2, a Delta variant sublineage, which is slowly increasing in proportion to reported cases in the U.K., is “very infrequent” in India.…
Effects of vaccination The speed at which the virus had killed people slowed down a bit since summer this year — it took nearly four months to add one more million deaths…
The National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NTAGI) Chairperson Dr. N.K. Arora had said children with comorbidities will be prioritised to receive the vaccine “immediately and healthy children can be immunised…
Though 500 health-care workers with or without prior infection were vaccinated, those with hybrid immunity — natural immunity from an infection combined with the immunity provided by the vaccine — had…
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