When WHO traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Ben Embarek said he was worried about biosafety standards at a laboratory close to the market where the first human cases were detected.
"The present rate of COVID-19 vaccine supply," will take another year for all to get vaccinated, says the Delhi health department.
ICMR said that mixing and matching of vaccines Covishield and Covaxin can yeild better results against Covid-19.
For third day in a row, India recorded over 40,000 Covid cases amid concerns of rise in trajectory of fresh infections. The total fatalities in India jumped to 426,754.
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The UN health agency said Wednesday infections have been increasing for more than a month, although the worldwide number of deaths dropped by about 8%.
With the new cases, the overall infection tally in the city rose to 14,36,401 out of which 14,10,809 patients have recovered from the disease.
After battling with the virus for long, a 45-year-old woman was discharged from the hospital on Friday post 100 days of recieving treatment.
Karachi Expo Centre stopped its inoculation drive following chaos after hundreds of people rushed to get themselves vaccinated.
The Florida Hospital Association said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year’s peak.
Over 48.78 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and further 68,57,590 doses are in the pipeline.
The document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines unpublished data that shows fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant, first identified in India, at the same rate as unvaccinated people.
Zhangjiajie started massive nucleic acid testing in three regions on Wednesday, said Wang Jianghua, director of the municipal health commission.
In the last 24 hours, 1,96,902 samples were tested and the TPR was found to be 11.2 per cent. So far, 2,67,33,694 samples have been tested, it said.
The corona curfew will last for two weeks from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
According to Pulungan, over 800 children younger than 18 have died from the virus in Indonesia since the pandemic began, but the majority of those deaths have occurred only in the past month.
There has been a significant rise in the number of young people -- under 20 -- being hospitalised for eating disorders in England as a result of the Covid pandemic, the media reported.
AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria has said that third wave can be mitigated by following Covid-appropriate behaviour such as maintaining social distancing, using masks, and taking vaccine.
Covid-19 cases rose in more than 40 US states over the past week as the vaccination rate has slowed down and the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to spread.
Pfizer says it plans to meet with top US health officials Monday to discuss the drugmaker's request for federal authorization of a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine.
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