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  NTAGI panel takes up inclusion of Covid jab COVOVAX on CoWIN portal

  India | February 11, 2023 16:10 IST

  The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on January 16 approved market authorisation to Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin.

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  COVID-19: 3 lakh doses of intranasal vaccine 'iNCOVACC' sent to hospitals, informs Bharat Biotech

  India | February 05, 2023 18:29 IST

  COVID-19 vaccine: iNCOVACC, the world's first intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, was launched on January 26 (Thursday). The vaccine is now available on CoWIN and priced at Rs 800 for private markets and Rs 325 for the government of India and state governments.

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  Young Indian scientist develops biosensor that can detect Covid from sweat

  Health | February 01, 2023 11:47 IST

  COVID19: The biosensors would be a one-step identification or sensing technique.

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  Children's 'rushed' immune response makes them susceptible to Covid reinfection: Study

  Health | January 31, 2023 12:30 IST

  As children haven't been exposed to many viruses, their immune system is still 'naive'. And because they don't develop memory T cells, they are at risk of getting sick when they become reinfected

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  Deaths from heart diseases went up during COVID pandemic, says a study

  Health | January 29, 2023 15:00 IST

  Several people who had new or existing heart disease and stroke symptoms were reluctant to seek medical care, particularly in the early days of the COVID pandemic.

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  Chinese govt forces doctors to hide Covid-related deaths: Reports

  World | January 28, 2023 14:49 IST

  Covid19 in China: China revealed that the country had recorded close to 60,000 Covid-related deaths in early and mid-December, 2022.

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  'Coldspots' discovered in Covid virus, may help antibodies fight future variants: Study

  World | January 27, 2023 12:59 IST

  By analysing samples from COVID-19 convalescent individuals, the researchers found that some had antibodies specific for the coldspots, the study said.

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  Covid infection could damage foetuses of pregnant women, claims a study

  Health | January 26, 2023 13:37 IST

  Oxygen, nutrients and metabolic products are exchanged between mother and child in the placenta. Attached to the uterine wall, this organ forms such a strong barrier against the coronavirus that only 3 per cent or fewer of foetuses whose mothers test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are also infected.

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  Do we need fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine? Expert has THIS to say

  India | January 25, 2023 10:03 IST

  According to Dr Raman Gangakhedkar, former head of epidemiology and communicable diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research 'there is still time to think.'

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  Hybrid immunity offers more protection against severe Covid than infection alone, says study

  Health | January 23, 2023 14:00 IST

  COVID: Against reinfection, the effectiveness of hybrid immunity following primary series vaccination waned to 41.8 per cent at 12 months, while the effectiveness of hybrid immunity following first booster vaccination waned to 46.5 per cent at 6 months, the study said.

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  Does COVID really damage your immune system and make you more vulnerable to infections? READ

  Health | January 23, 2023 10:30 IST

  Our knowledge of the immune response to COVID is rapidly expanding. The most consistent findings show how well vaccines are protecting us from the very worst effects of SARS-CoV-2 and that, post-vaccination, our immune system is working exactly as it should.

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  Media report on 'multiple side-effects of Covid vaccines' ill-informed, erroneous: Health Ministry

  India | January 17, 2023 17:10 IST

  Citing an RTI response, a recent news report had claimed that ICMR and CDSCO officials have admitted to side-effects of COVID-19 vaccines, citing a plethora of ramifications arising out of them.

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  China's Covid death data hides true toll: Report

  World | January 17, 2023 7:57 IST

  China's abrupt pivot from Covid Zero in early December (2022) unleashed a surge of omicron infections and led to 59,938 virus-related deaths in the nation's hospitals through January 12, Bloomberg news agency reported, citing the figures disclosed by the National Health Commission.

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  Delhi: No new Covid case reported in a day, first time since pandemic began

  India | January 16, 2023 22:43 IST

  The national capital has battled three Covid waves so far, with the Delta variant-driven second wave in April-May 2021 being the deadliest.

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  US researchers eye developing mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses

  Health | January 16, 2023 15:00 IST

  Flu, RSV, SARS-CoV-2 and "common cold" coronaviruses share several characteristics that enable them to cause repeated re-infections, including very short incubation periods, rapid host-to-host transmission and replication in the nasal mucosa rather than throughout the body.

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  China COVID-19 update: WHO appeals to release more information on coronavirus infections

  World | January 15, 2023 18:15 IST

  China COVID-19 UPDATE: The government said 5,503 people died of respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 and there were 54,435 fatalities from cancer, heart disease and other ailments combined with COVID-19 between December 8 and January 12.

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  Gut bacteria linked with high death risk in Covid patients: Indian-origin scientist

  Health | January 11, 2023 11:42 IST

  COVID: Patients who suffered progressive lung failure and died had more of a group of bacteria called proteobacteria than patients who recovered. These patients also had lower levels of secondary bile acids, and less of a metabolite called "desaminotyrosine".

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  Covid vaccine Covovax to get approval as booster in 10-15 days, says Adar Poonawalla

  India | January 09, 2023 7:45 IST

  Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event at Bharti Vidyapeeth University, Poonawalla, when asked about states and districts not getting Covishield vaccines, said there are ample stocks with the Union government for supply.

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  New & highly-contagious 'Kraken' Covid variant is the 'most transmissible,' warns WHO

  Health | January 06, 2023 14:44 IST

  XBB.1.5, nicknamed Kraken, is "the most transmissible sub-variant which has been detected yet," said WHO's Covid-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, during a press conference.

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  Nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses? Here's what the research says

  Health | January 06, 2023 11:24 IST

  COVID Pandemic: Based on that finding, the researchers applied comprehensive genetic sequencing methods to old samples containing the protein and, in one sample, found an unexpected influenza virus, called influenza C.