Earlier last month, the US Department of Energy reassessed the theory of lab leaks and reclaimed that the lethal virus leaked from a lab in China's Wuhan city in 2019.
Initially, the health emergency was invoked by the then-US President Donald Trump and was later extended repeatedly by his successor Biden since he took office in January 2021.
Covid 19: China saw an unprecedented nationwide outbreak of the coronavirus after abruptly easing Covid restrictions due to protests against its Zero Covid policy.
Students appearing for the board examinations must get both doses of vaccination, CM said.
The Drugs Controller General of India has granted emergency use permission to single-dose Sputnik Light Covid vaccine in the country, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 16,21,603 the health ministry data showed today.
Covaxin and Covishield were granted Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) on January 3 last year.
Officials encouraged the use of cloth masks in the spring of 2020 as a desperate measure to slow the spread of Covid-19 after previously recommending against masks and continued to boost them in the months after. Now, though, more experts are saying that the masks are not helpful, the report said.
Diseases are endemic when they occur regularly in certain areas according to established patterns, while a pandemic refers to a global outbreak that causes unpredictable waves of illness.
The rural caseload is led by Andhra, Bihar, Himachal, Jammu & Kashmir, Odisha and Rajasthan, and rural vaccination is lower in Arunachal, Gujarat, Haryana and Karnataka.
The study, published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, found that 13 per cent of people still exhibited clinically-relevant levels of virus after 10 days, meaning they could potentially still be infectious. Some people retained these levels for up to 68 days or more than two months.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to people to follow all Covid-19 related protocols, wear masks and get vaccinated if eligible.
As per a new study, the risky activities which have increased the transmission of COVID-19 infection over the past two years are: going outside for shopping, leaving home for work, using public transport, eating at restaurants, playing sports, going to indoor and outdoor parties.
The Centre sounded a note of caution on a day when the country began administering a "precautionary" dose against the viral infection.
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The rise in COVID-19 cases in various parts of the country appears to be driven by the Omicron variant as well as by the continued presence of Delta, he said and stressed on augmenting human resources, particularly healthcare workers, for Covid management.
The new variant Omicron is spreading at a rampant rate. There has been a massive increase in the number of infections over the last few weeks. Many Bollywood and television celebrities have tested positive for the virus. The latest celebrity to be tested positive for COVID19 is filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar.
COVID-19 updates: According to research, the omicron variant has the ability to spread rapidly and even avoids vaccine-induced immunity. Thus, people who contract the virus should isolate themselves immediately for the safety of others.
Doctors advise to wear masks indoors, avoid crowds and get vaccinated and boosted. Even though the shots won't always keep you from catching the virus, they'll make it much more likely you stay alive and out of the hospital.
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the organisers of CES has recently declared that the trade fair will close its display on January 7 instead of January 8, 2022. The steps have been taken by CTA post witnessing the rising cases of Covid-19 in the USA.
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