COVID-19: India reports 16,561 fresh cases in last 24 hours, active cases reduce to 1,23,535
India | August 12, 2022 14:41 ISTCOVID-19: The total active cases in India have decreased to 1,23,535, the health ministry data showed on Friday.
COVID-19: The total active cases in India have decreased to 1,23,535, the health ministry data showed on Friday.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 14,996, the health ministry data showed on Saturday.
Gyms and swimming pools that were closed in compliance with state government directives for districts with over 1,000 active cases can reopen now, the officials said.
If you have been in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19, the urge to meet a loved can be very strong. However, it is important to know the correct time period before you can get back to normal scheme of things and not put those around you at the risk of virus exposure.
First detected from South Africa and Botswana in late November last year, the Omicron has spread rapidly to more than 100 countries. It has also outpaced the previous Delta strain in many countries to become the dominant variant. The countries include the US, the UK, Italy and Portugal among others.
The attempt at a back-to-normal show had been scheduled for Jan 31 at the newly renamed Crypto.com Arena with a live audience and performances, but no new date is on the books.
The new variant of COVID-19 was first reported to the World Health Organisation from South Africa on November 25.
In a new study, the team at IIT-Bombay explored how airflow can mitigate the transmission of Covid-19 indoors by taking cue from airflow around aircraft and engines. The researchers discovered that the chances of infection are significantly higher in a dead zone.
Covid toe, which appears to be a side-effect of the body switching into attack mode to fight off the virus, can happen at any age but affects children and teenagers more commonly.
We tend to ignore some of the warning signs and due to lack of awareness, sometimes, we fail to prevent certain cardiovascular issues during COVID or even after recovering from COVID.
Men were more likely to report shortness of breath, fatigue, chills and shivers, whereas women were more likely to report loss of smell, chest pain and a persistent cough.
A new study highlights antibodies that are able to neutralise the newer strains, while identifying regions of the spike protein that have become more resistant to attack.
According to current estimates, the Delta variant could be more than twice as transmissible as the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19. The variant, which was first identified in India in late 2020, has now become the predominant strain and has spread to at least 111 countries.
Children older than five and adults aged 18 to 78 years with previous diagnoses of malnutrition were found to have higher odds of severe Covid-19 than those with no history of malnutrition in the same age groups.
In recent months, the lab-leak theory has gained great traction pushing US President Joe Biden to give the American intelligence team a 90-day deadline to find answers into the virus origin.
A massive footfall of people in hill stations like Manali, Shimla, and Mussoorie has been seen as covid cases are on a downward trajectory. People travelling to hill stations are not following Covid appropriate behaviour.
Further, the team of scientists said that genetic evidence points to the natural origin of Covid -- that the virus jumped from animals to humans.
As SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious compared with other respiratory viruses, they raised the hypothesis that it may replicate in cells of the salivary glands and hence be present in saliva without coming into contact with nasal and lung secretions.
The first phase of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s four-stage “pathway out of the COVID-19 pandemic”, announced on Friday, focuses on vaccinating as many Australians as possible.
They found that Covid-19 patients with milder symptoms tended to have lots of killer-T memory cells directed at peptides SARS-CoV-2 shared with other coronavirus strains.
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