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Despite the manifest benefits of vaccination, the risk of airborne transmission in confined spaces might be higher, and so the corresponding precautions regarding ventilation needed to be re-appraised, according to the study published in the journal Building Simulation.
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An international team of researchers has identified a pan-variant and ultra-potent neutralising antibody that can offset Omicron variants.
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Chennai: The XBB subvariant of Covid-19′s Omicron variant is fast emerging as the dominant in India, with nine states reporting cases of it and Tamil Nadu topping the number. International research organisation GISIAD, that has been monitoring the changes in the virus, has reported that there were 380 confirmed cases of XBB in India. Tamil […]
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The study, involving a team of University of Utah researchers, examined health care personnel, first responders and other frontline workers in the US.
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The research, published recently in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, provides new insights into the evolutionary origins of Omicron.
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Hyderabad: Billed as the most immune evasive sub lineage of the coronavirus, the threat from recombinant variant XBB appears to be very real following alerts sounded by state governments of Maharashtra and Kerala. In the last few days, parts of Maharashtra including Pune, Thane and Mumbai have reported a 17 per cent rise in daily […]
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New Delhi: With the emergence of new Omicron variants leading to many countries to witness a steep rise in Covid cases, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday stressed on monitoring the points of entry and highlighted the need for community awareness for continued implementation of the Covid Appropriate Behaviour (CAB), especially in view of […]
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Hyderabad: Just a few weeks ahead of winter, new recombinant strains of coronavirus have emerged that are now threatening to trigger a fresh surge of Covid-19 infections, especially in Europe and United States, which tends to have a cascading impact throughout India including Telangana. While the daily Covid-19 infections in the last few months have […]
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The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, showed that two vaccine doses provide only limited and short-lived protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the variant.
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The research, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, analysed the probability of vaccinated people becoming infected with the subvariant BA.5 currently in circulation.
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Hybrid immunity of vaccine and exposed naturally to virus is helping to see that the disease severity is mild
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Hyderabad: The repeated cycle of Covid reinfections and associated illness among individuals who test positive due to the new variants of Omicron has now fuelled the demand for updating the existing Covid vaccines. While the present-day Covid vaccines including the precautionary or booster doses have accorded protection from severe hospitalisations and deaths, they however have […]
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New Delhi: The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), in a weekly meeting, reviewed the data of genomic surveillance of variants and found that at present, Omicron and its sub-lineages are the predominant mutataions that are circulating in India. “Presently, only Omicron and its sub-lineages are the predominant circulating variants in India,” sources told ANI today. […]
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Hyderabad: For the first time after the third Omicron wave, which lasted between November 2021 and January 2022, the daily Covid infections in Telangana has crossed the 1,000 mark. On Monday, a total of 1,054 individuals have tested Covid positive while on February 8 of this year, the number of daily Covid infections were 1,061. […]
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Hyderabad: It has literally become a battle for supremacy to gain a firm footing in the community between different circulating variants of Omicron including BA.5, BA 2.75, BA 2.38 and to some extent even BA.2 that have triggered the ongoing surge of Covid infections in Telangana and elsewhere in the country, public health officials and […]
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Hyderabad: After a period of six months, Telangana is witnessing a significant surge of daily Covid infections with authorities reporting 923 cases on Friday. On February 8 of this year, during the third Covid wave driven primarily by the earlier versions of Omicron variant including BA. 1 and BA.2, a total of 1,061 Covid infections […]
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New York: Having high blood pressure more than doubled a person’s risk for hospitalisation from an Omicron-variant — despite full vaccination, including a booster dose of the Covid vaccines, according to new research. The findings showed that individuals with high BP were 2.6 times more likely to require hospital care for severe Covid illness, even when […]
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Hyderabad: Despite the rise in active Covid-19 infections in Telangana, there are clear indications that the new Omicron variants are not causing a surge in hospitalisations and there are no fatalities among individuals who have tested positive, preliminary clinical observations and trends by senior government doctors in Hyderabad have indicated. Between June 1 and July […]
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Hyderabad: The surge of Covid infections driven by different variants of Omicron has just become even more complicated with geneticists reporting Covid infections due to BA.2.75, the new Omicron variant in different States including Telangana. Between March and June 7, the average daily Covid infections in Telangana hovered between 55 and 65. Since then, there […]
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Geneva: A new sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in various countries including India, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Ghebreyesus said that the world body was following the development. “On COVID-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the past two weeks. Four out […]
