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London : Covid infections jumped by a tenth across the UK last week, according to another study that shows children are fueling the resurgence of Omicron.According to the Daily Mail, King's College London scientists estimate 160,000 people…

London : Small changes to periods can follow a Covid-19 vaccine but they quickly return to normal, a leading UK menstruation expert has said.Victoria Male, from Imperial College London, called studies from the US and Norway which tracked…

New Delhi : Abnormalities have been identified in the lungs of long Covid patients that could offer a potential explanation for why some people experience breathlessness long after their initial infection, The Guardian has reported.The…

London : People with even mild Covid infections are likely to have hidden damage to their lungs after an initial bout of illness, a small pilot study in the UK has shown.While earlier long Covid was seen among people with severe Covid, the…

London : The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is 1.5 times more transmissible than the original Omicron strain, according to a study led by Danish researchers.Omicron, which is also referred to as B.1.1.529, has three main substrains, BA.1,…

New York : US researchers have identified four factors that are linked to a person's risk of developing long lasting symptoms post a Covid infection.People with the debilitating condition called long Covid continue to experience symptoms,…

Sao Paulo: A team of international researchers have found that the novel coronavirus can continue to be present in some human bodies upto 232 days.Researchers from France's Pasteur Institute, the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Oswaldo…

Oslo : Covid-19 was likely far more widespread in Europe, and around the world, before a first official diagnosis was made, claimed a study.The virus was officially announced from an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019,…

New York : A booster dose of any Covid vaccine is safe and prompts an immune response among people who had previously received a full regimen of any authorised Covid-19 vaccines, according to a preliminary clinical trial conducted by the US…

New York : The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 diverged from the previous SARS-CoV-2 variants as a result of adaptive evolution, in which beneficial mutations are passed onto future generations through natural selection, rather than through…