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Tokyo: The highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 can survive upto eight days on plastic and 21 hours on skin — a much longer period of time than other variants of concern like Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta, as well as the original strain, according to a study. The study posted on pre-print, and not […]
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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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New York: Of hospitalised children who tested or were presumed positive for SARS-CoV-2, 44 per cent developed neurological symptoms, and these kids were more likely to require intensive care than their peers who didn’t experience such symptoms, a new study suggests. The findings, published in the journal Pediatric Neurology, indicated that the most common neurologic […]
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Hyderabad: A Hyderabad-based USA headquartered company BioGenex Life Sciences Pvt Ltd has developed an RT-PCR kit which claims to detect SARS-CoV-2 and its many variants including Omicron. The kit named Triplex Covid-19 RT-PCR Direct is said to detect Omicron without RNA extraction in half the time than standard RT-PCR. The product was launched across the […]
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Hyderabad: The city-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in collaboration with State government has launched SARs-CoV-2 sero-surveillance across Telangana. Given the rise of Omicron positive infections, the sero-survey has become vital, as it has the potential to thrown some light on the antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 among the general population in Telangana. A total of […]
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Hyderabad: City-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and State government are all set to launch a state-wide SARS-COV-2 sero-survey from Tuesday. The survey will be conducted among general population and healthcare workers, in all the districts of Telangana and aims to assess the extent of community spread of the infection in the state. The sero-prevalence […]
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Ohio (US): A new study has found that SARS-CoV-2 has been hiding from the immune system by spreading from cell to cell. The research has been published in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal’. “It’s basically an underground form of transmission,” said lead author Shan-Lu Liu, a virology professor in the Department […]
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Hyderabad: Health Minister T Harish Rao on Thursday said the High Court directives on preventing the spread of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 would be respected. Commenting on the orders from Telangana High Court, which on Thursday directed the State government to strictly comply with the latest directives issued by the Union government to prevent the […]
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Experts say it can be effective way to prevent exposure to new variant
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Hyderabad: With the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 getting reported in Hyderabad, the Health Department on Wednesday urged people in Telangana to avoid crowded gatherings, areas, marriages, upcoming festivals including Christmas, New Year’s Eve and Sankranti and ensure everybody wears masks, maintains physical distancing and gets vaccinated. There is ample evidence that Omicron is highly transmissible […]
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Hyderabad: The State government is likely to procure S-gene RT-PCR test kits that can be employed as a proxy test to detect the presence of the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 does not have an S-gene, which is also commonly known as S-gene dropout. Due to this specific character of the Omicron variant, […]
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Hyderabad: A mild third wave triggered by the Omicron (B1.1.529), the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported in South Africa, is likely to hit the country in January and reach a peak by first week of February before infections start dropping to manageable levels by the end of March, according to the noted SUTRA mathematical […]
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Given the collection of mutations in Omicron, which earlier individually have been associated with increased infectivity and/or immune evasion, and the sudden rise in number of positive cases in South Africa
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Ottawa: Canada has found the first cases of Covid-19 in three white-tailed deer, according to the Environment and Climate Change Canada. On Monday, the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease confirmed the first detections of SARS-CoV-2 in three free-ranging white-tailed deer in Canada, Xinhua news agency reported. These deer were sampled between November 6 to […]
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Hyderabad: The detection and subsequent reporting of Omicron (B 1.1.529), the new variant of SARS-CoV-2, across the world, has made public health officials and general public in Hyderabad and the neighbouring districts of Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri, realise that the battle against Covid-19 has not been won yet and the pandemic could as stay for a […]
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Hyderabad: The State health department on Sunday said that it is geared-up to meet any kind of resurgence of Covid infections triggered by Omicron (B1.1.529), the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that was first reported by health officials in South Africa. Director of Public Health (DPH) Dr G Srinivasa Rao on Sunday said that while the […]
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The new variant B 1.1. 529, which was designated as a ‘Variant of Concern’ by World Health Organisation on Friday night, has been assigned the name Omicron. Reported by public health officials of South Africa, the new variant has triggered a lot of concern worldwide over a probable resurgence of Covid infections. While many new […]
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Hyderabad: With cases of Covid-19 continuing to get reported steadily and the recent rise of a fresh wave of infections in Europe that involves a lot of breakthrough infections, public health officials and researchers here have urged people in Hyderabad and elsewhere in Telangana to get their pending second dose of Covid vaccine at the […]
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Hyderabad: The descendant of the Delta variant AY.4.2, also known as Delta Plus, which is more transmissible than Delta, has been detected among two Covid positive cases in Hyderabad and seven individuals in Andhra Pradesh. The Delta Plus variant (AY.4.2) is widely regarded as the variant responsible for the recent surge of Covid infections in […]
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Hyderabad: A series of proactive measures aimed at breaking the transmission chains of SARS-CoV-2 and containing the second wave of the Covid pandemic taken-up across Telangana in the last four months has led to a consistent decline in daily number of infections. The measures also have played a crucial role in preventing resurgence of Covid […]