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Russia reports one-day high of 22,702 new Covid-19 cases
Russia has confirmed a record number of 22,702 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 19,03,253, the country's Covid-19 response centre said in a statement Saturday.Meanwhile, 391 new deaths were reported, taking the…
‘Smell, taste changes an early indication of Covid community spread’
An international team of researchers has revealed that self-reports of smell and taste changes provide earlier markers of the spread of infection of SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus.The study, published in the journal Nature Communications,…
Sputnik V vaccine demonstrates 92% efficacy, claims Russia
Russia's National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund on Wednesday announced that the Sputnik V vaccine, the world's first registered vaccine against coronavirus created on the…
‘In dialogue with all vaccine manufacturers,’ govt on Pfizer’s successful trial
The union health ministry revealed on Tuesday that the Centre is in dialogue with all vaccine manufacturers including foreign manufacturers about a Coronavirus vaccine. The ministry revealed it in a press conference when asked whether India…
Deputy commissioner inaugurates covid-19 testing facility at PIMS, machine can test 96 samples at a…
Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori on Friday inaugurated the Covid-19 testing facility at Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to facilitate people with the latest RT-PCR testing facility at the local level.The deputy commissioner…
Mask is only vaccine to avert COVID-19’s second wave
With the second wave of COVID-19 has already started arriving in some of the states, a seminar on how to prevent another wave in the district was organised under Mission Fateh at Police Lines here on Wednesday.The seminar was presided over…
India leveraging manufacturing capacity to secure Covid vax doses
India has leveraged its manufacturing capacity to pre-order 600 million doses of potential Covid-19 vaccine and negotiating for another billion doses, says a new global anaylysis of advance market commitments (AMC) for vaccine candidates…
‘Turning coronavirus protein into nanoparticle could be key for Covid vax’
In a major study, researchers have discovered a technique that could help increase the effectiveness of vaccines against the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes Covid-19.Since it began spreading in early 2020, biomedical researchers…
Covid vax: Infections reported among Sputnik V trial volunteers
There have been instances of infection among volunteers of Sputnik V trials, the world's first registered vaccine against Covid-19 virus, according to a top official of the developer of the Russian vaccine, said a media report.This is the…
Corona milestone : Remdesivir 1st to receive FDA approval for Covid-19 treatment
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for use in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older and weighing at least 40 kilograms (about 88 pounds) for the treatment of COVID-19…