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TS reported 90 cases of BA.2, the newly-identified sub-lineage of the variant
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Hyderabad: Telangana on Monday registered 3,980 Covid-19 infections out of which 1,439 positive cases were from areas under GHMC. The health authorities also have reported three Covid-19 fatalities on Monday, taking the overall number of deaths in TS to 4,075. The active Covid-19 positive infections in the State, as on Monday have surged to 33,673. […]
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London: About 50 per cent of people infected with Covid-19 during the first wave of infections in 2020 may have long-term and even permanent changes to their sense of smell, according to preliminary research from Sweden. From the early pandemic days, sudden loss of smell, or an impaired or distorted perception of odours, emerged as […]
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Hyderabad: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron, Lambda, and Delmicron in between. Since it was first notified in 2019, Covid-19 virus has changed into multiple variants and hundreds of mutations have taken place. While billions got affected by this deadly virus, more than five million have lost their lives. Even after two years since this novel […]
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New Delhi: The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros where new cases have been rising exponentially, the INSACOG has said in its latest bulletin. It also said BA.2 lineage, an infectious sub-variant of Omicron, has been found in a substantial fraction in […]
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The Prime Minister announced her government's decision at Sunday's unscheduled media conference, reports Xinhua news agency.
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Published in the Science journal, the analysis which is done at near atomic resolution using cryo-electron microscopy, reveals how the heavily mutated Omicron variant attaches to and infects human cells.
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Hyderabad: When Srushti Rao bagged an internship opportunity in a top IT company, her joy knew no bounds. She was told to move to Bengaluru from Hyderabad and she immediately packed her bags and moved cities. However, now she is faced with the uncertainty of whether to continue staying in Bengaluru or should move back […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday registered a significant surge in daily Omicron variant Covid-19 infections with health authorities reporting 4,207 positive cases out of which 1,645 were from areas under GHMC. The health authorities also have reported two Covid-19 fatalities on Thursday, taking the overall number of deaths in TS to 4,067. On Wednesday, the authorities […]
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London: A third ‘booster’ dose of Covid-19 vaccine successfully raises antibody levels that neutralise the Omicron variant, according to laboratory findings. Published as a research letter in The Lancet, researchers including from the Francis Crick Institute and UCLH Biomedical Research, found that antibodies generated in people who had received only two doses of either the […]
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Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 333.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.55 million and vaccinations to over 9.68 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Hyderabad: The steady surge in daily Omicron variant Covid-19 infections in Telangana has continued with health authorities on Tuesday reporting 2,983 positive cases out of which 1,206 were from areas under the GHMC. The health authorities also have reported two Covid-19 fatalities on Tuesday, taking the overall number of deaths in TS to 4,062. The […]
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Sangareddy: As many as 236 persons including students, faculty and staff tested positive for Covid-19 at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) campus as on Tuesday. According to sources at the campus, 186 students, 50 faculty and staff tested positive for Covid-19. Since the first case was reported on January 6, the number of Covid-19 […]
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Jerusalem: After becoming the first country to roll out a fourth dose of Covid vaccine, a study conducted in Israel now says that the second booster shot is not enough to fight the Omicron variant. According to experts at the Sheba Medical Centre, which launched a trial in December 2021 to test the efficacy of […]
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New Delhi: While Omicron is known to cause Covid re-infection, there is no strong evidence yet in the favour of a person being affected with the vaccine dodging strain again, said Indian health experts here on Monday. However, they also did not rule out such a possibility. An individual’s immunity which has been primed by […]
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Hyderabad: The steady rise in daily Omicron variant Covid-19 infections in Telangana has continued with health authorities on Monday reporting 2,447 positive cases out of which 1112 were from areas under GHMC. The health authorities have also reported three Covid-19 fatalities on Monday, taking the overall number of deaths in TS to 4,060. The active […]
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Bengaluru: As India grapples with the Omicron Covid-19 variant surge and an understaffed healthcare industry, demand for medical professionals spiked in December 2021 with a 6 per cent month-on-month growth, new data showed on Monday. Healthcare led with the highest intent to hire on account of staff shortage amidst rising Covid numbers, according to Monster […]
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Hyderabad: The Covid-19 incidence in Telangana remained high on Sunday with a total of 2,047 positive cases and three deaths reported in the State. The urban centres continued to remain high on the list of Covid cases as GHMC areas with 1,174 cases accounted for more than half of the total case load in the […]
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Washington: An international team of researchers recently studied the sensitivity of Omicron to antibodies compared with the currently dominant Delta variant. The study about this variant has been published in the ‘Nature Journal’. The new COVID-19 Omicron variant is more transmissible than the Delta variant. However, its biological characteristics are still relatively unknown. In South […]
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Hyderabad: The rise in daily Omicron variant Covid-19 infections in Telangana has continued with health authorities on Saturday reporting 1963 positive cases out of which 1075 were from areas under GHMC. The health authorities have also reported two Covid-19 fatalities on Saturday, taking the overall number of deaths in TS to 4,054. The active Covid-19 […]
