कोविड-19: यूरोप में नए मामलों की तादाद पिछले साल नवंबर के बराबर, गंभीर मामले भी बढ़े

वैक्सीन से मिली प्रतिरोधक क्षमता घट रही, हालात बिगड़ते रहे तो जनवरी 2022 में शीर्ष तक पहुंचेगी संख्या, होंगे 26 लाख मामले।

COVID-19: After 2.5 years, Micronesia in the Pacific records its first outbreak

Barely a fortnight before Micronesia had planned to lift its quarantine and travel restrictions on August 1, 42 people have tested positive for …

Reason for hope? Analysis of first Omicron patients in Gauteng paints encouraging picture

Fewer people administered specialist care, in-hospital death-rate significantly lower with decline in average length of hospital stay, analysis shows

Now, TB test recommended for COVID-19 patients in case of persisting cough

Experts hail decision as opportunity to increase detection of both COVID-19 and TB

Making nursery admissions easier to giving gold coins: Indian cities’ push for COVID-19 vaccination

Only 39% of total population has received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine in India 

New sublineages of Omicron’s BA.2 detected in India: How the virus has evolved over time

Sublineages might be behind recent rise in COVID-19 cases  

Neanderthal-inherited gene variant helps in protecting against severe COVID-19: Study 

A protective Neanderthal-derived haplotype confers approximately 23% reduced risk of becoming critically ill on infection with SARS-CoV-2

How virulent is omicron? Study from Gauteng looks at clinical severity of 4th wave

Hospitalisations triggered by omicron infections fewer than those triggered by beta and delta variants; average time spent in hospital also less

Health ministry updates discharge policy for mild to moderate COVID-19 cases 

India’s positivity rate now stands at 11 per cent

Devil in the details: Focus on US energy department’s ‘low confidence’ in COVID lab-leak theory is must

A low confidence level generally indicates that the information used in the analysis is scant, questionable, fragmented, or that solid analytical …

COVID-19 resurgence: Cases rise in China, Europe and New Zealand

Hong Kong and New Zealand facing huge waves; situation in Hong Kong similar to India delta wave

‘Traditional measures of pandemic preparedness don’t explain highest or lowest COVID-19 infections, mortality rates’

Erin Frame from the University of Washington, US, says trust has been shown to be valuable in keeping COVID-19 infection rates relatively …

COVID-19: 2 cases of Omicron detected in Karnataka, testing of contacts underway

Two males, 66 and 46 years of age, test positive for omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2; all primary and secondary contacts of both cases have been …

Omicron ‘re-infection’ raises questions about waning immunity against COVID-19. Here’s what we know

The metric being currently used to test waning immunity is an antibody test. Immunologists, however, have cautioned against an overreaction to …

Treatment for COVID-19 in Omicron wave: What to go for, what to avoid

Experimental therapies used to treat COVID-19 in India’s first two waves should not be used this time, warn doctors

New studies explore waning immunity and vaccine efficacy against long COVID

One deals with general efficacy and another is on vaccine effectiveness in preventing or reducing the chances of long COVID

COVID-19 is already endemic, lack of data plagues understanding about vaccine efficacy: Gagandeep Kang

Gagandeep Kang, ex-officio member of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines at the WHO, talks to DTE on vaccines, their effectiveness and urgent …

COVID-19: Global risk related to Omicron ‘very high’, warns WHO

WHO urges ramping up surveillance, sequencing and community testing to check SARS-CoV-2’s mutations and omicron’s prevalence

COVID-19: 2 years into pandemic, original virus nowhere as variants take over

Data from GISAID has revealed the current dominance of the GK clade, to which the Delta variant belongs, in nearly every continent

Millions of doses set to expire by September as India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive stagnates

Share of population completely vaccinated grew just 5 percentage points since April

COVID-19: Recombination unlikely to be greater public health threat than mutation, says Shahid Jameel

The World Health Organization is currently tracking two SARS-CoV-2 recombinants, XD and XE  

Lancet study flags breakthrough omicron infections after boosters

Cases of omicron infection noted among 7 Germans who visited South Africa; All had received at least 2 shots of an mRNA vaccine while 5 had …

COVID-19: Where does India stand on syringe shortage?

55% of global population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine; it is just 6.3% for low-income countries

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WHO ends COVID-19 global health emergency, bringing one of human history’s most painful periods to a close

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautions world against letting its guard down