"sars-cov-2"

The study was presented virtually at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting.

Most known cases of COVID-19 in pregnant women have been in the third trimester of pregnancy.

The woman, who has been breastfeeding the baby exclusively, received the second dose of the vaccine as per the normal 28-day vaccination protocol timeline.

According to the Hill, the study found that protection in the general population to be 80 per cent or higher in those younger than 65.

Almost all major urban hotspots witnessing fresh spike in infections; public urged to follow safety guidelines strictly

The study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, assessed hundreds of thousands of sequenced genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for COVID-19 are authorised for emergency use in many countries.

Online information about COVID nasopharyngeal swabs lacks information warning those with prior extensive sinus or skull base surgery.

India's total COVID-19 active caseload has reached 1,73,413 comprising 1.55 per cent of India's total cases.

While confirming that there are no signs of a second wave, senior public health officials have urged people to show no signs of slackness, as the virus is very much still there in the community

Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic has proved that the Indian scientific community can deliver and stand up to expectations when faced with an adversary like SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic has definitely prepared the community of Indian researchers, clinicians and scientists for a future pandemic, said Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary to Government of India, Department of Biotechnology (DBT). […]

Respiratory infections such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads primarily by respiratory droplets (size > 10μm) of saliva or discharge from the nose of an infected person during coughing or sneezing.

Urge people to wear masks, follow hand hygiene and physical distancing

For the first time in India, four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the Brazil variant in the country, the health minister has said.

South Africa strain has been detected in four returnees -- one from Angola, one from Tanzania and two from South Africa in January

Until vaccine-induced population immunity is achieved, universal masking is a highly effective means to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

The sero-prevalence at the national level went up 3.1 times between August and December but in Telangana, this went up by two times

The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, suggest the possibility that evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can occur in immunosuppressed individuals when prolonged viral replication takes place.

The AI-assisted method predicted 26 potential vaccines that would work against the coronavirus.

"While these findings do not indicate the need for a new vaccine to address the emerging variants, the companies are prepared to respond if a variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates evidence of escaping immunity by the Covid-19 vaccine," Pfizer and BioNTech said in a statement on Wednesday.