SARS-CoV-2

Brussels : Omicron will dominate European countries within weeks, pushing an already stretched health system further to the brink, said head of the European office of the World Health Organization (WHO) while urging people to get a booster…

Sydney : Australian researchers have developed a test which can provide highly accurate readings for Covid-19 from a finger prick of blood within 20 minutes.The point-of-care (POC) test, created by scientists from the Burnet Institute and…

New Delhi: India registered 6,317 fresh Covid cases and 318 deaths in the last 24 hours, and the Omicron tally has reached 213, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday.With the addition of 318 new deaths, the death…

San Francisco: The world's biggest consumer electronics show 'CES 2022' appears to be falling apart as some of the major tech companies like Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Pinterest and T-Mobile have announced not to attend the event in-person,…

Rome : The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has added a fifth vaccine to its anti-Covid arsenal as the Omicron variant continued to spread across Europe."EMA has recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for Novavax's…

New Delhi : New Covid variant Omicron is three times more transmissible that the Delta variant, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday."Based on current scientific evidence, the Variant of Concern Omicron is at least 3 times more…

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New York : Monoclonal antibody therapy, once hailed as 100 per cent effective in stopping Covid-19 in its tracks, has been defeated by the new super mutant Omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to an international study involving…

Washington: US drugmaker Moderna on Monday announced that its booster shot increases neutralising antibodies against the new vaccine evading Omicron variant, compared to two doses.An authorised dose of 50 microgram booster increased…

Beijing : A Covid booster dose developed by China's Sinopharm has shown to generate weaker immune responses against the new highly transmissible Omicron variant, known to evade vaccine efficacy.The hyper mutated Omicron variant of concern…