04/08/2022 16:01 PM - The lining of children's noses is better at inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infections than those of the adults, which may explain why younger people had a lower infection rate and milder...
29/07/2022 21:34 PM - Out of 88 post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections, 90.91 per cent were symptomatic cases and the remaining 9.09 per cent were asymptomatic. Among symptomatic...
29/07/2022 17:27 PM - However, various Omicron sub-lineages are circulating across all states with the clinical presentation remaining largely the same, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin...
29/07/2022 15:26 PM - Coronavirus infections among children and adolescents typically cause less severe illness as compared to adults, according to the WHO, the government informed the Lok Sabha on...
17/07/2022 18:53 PM - Maharashtra on Sunday reported 2,186 new coronavirus-positive cases and three deaths linked to the infection, the health department said.
07/07/2022 09:21 AM - WHO said that the BA.2.75 covid sub-variant reported from India and some other countries ‘seems to have a few mutations on the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein.
24/06/2022 18:45 PM - Covid-19 cases in India are on the rise again with 51 districts, including 12 from Kerala, seven from Mizoram and five each from Maharashtra and Assam, reporting a weekly Covid...
24/06/2022 15:22 PM - Omicron subvariants including BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 substantially escape neutralising antibodies induced by both vaccination and previous infection, the study published in the...
23/06/2022 11:33 AM - In a review meeting of INSACOG held last week, states/UTs were asked to submit "larger number" of samples for whole genome sequencing from districts and areas which have seen...
23/06/2022 08:32 AM - The largest study to date of long COVID symptoms in children aged 0-14 years used national level sampling of children in Denmark and matched COVID-19 positive cases with a control...
22/06/2022 21:35 PM - Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's meeting on Friday comes as 43 districts report weekly and daily positivity rate of over 10 per cent.
21/06/2022 16:15 PM - Earlier, there was a debate over the naming of virus that causes Covid-19, with many calling it Wuhan/China Wirus as it originiated in China's Wuhan.
20/06/2022 15:08 PM - On Monday, India logged 12,781 new Covid-19 cases, taking the daily positivity rate past four after 130 days. What's causing the sudden rise across states?
09/06/2022 22:09 PM - Amidst continuous developments in the covid vaccine study and innovation, Haryana-based ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, (NRC), has launched a COVID-19 vaccine for...
06/06/2022 13:49 PM - The next step was to ask if SIH-5 would be useful for preventing COVID-19 infection. To answer this, the team first tested the miniprotein for toxicity in mammalian cells in the...
06/06/2022 13:32 PM - The study has found that people living in counties with higher nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels are more likely to need ICU care and mechanical ventilation if they have COVID-19
25/05/2022 17:18 PM - Doctors at a Delhi government-run hospital have conducted a study to examine the epidemiological characteristics of the pandemic and found that hypertension was the most common...
23/05/2022 15:56 PM - The increased sensitivity after Covid-19 infection was similar to what was seen in the influenza study, suggesting that both viruses could induce an equivalent increase in risk...
21/05/2022 14:06 PM - BA.4 is one of the two sub-variants of Omicron that led to the fifth wave of Covid-19 in South Africa. The European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention declared the BA.4 and...
05/05/2022 18:35 PM - The B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variant has previously been reported as more transmissible, but less severe than other SARS-CoV-2 variants.
30/04/2022 10:28 AM - Two hundred years earlier, the Martians had found that the water sources and canals on the surface of their planet had started drying up. But the Martian polity—divided by...
