White House soft-launches COVID test request website
World | January 19, 2022 7:37 ISTWhite House press secy Jen Psaki said the website was in “beta testing” and operating at a “limited capacity” ahead of its official launch.
White House press secy Jen Psaki said the website was in “beta testing” and operating at a “limited capacity” ahead of its official launch.
ICMR Head of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Dr Samiran Panda said that Omicron variant of coronavirus is gradually replacing Delta variant in many states across India.
An individual's immunity which has been primed by prior infection or vaccination has the memory of the parent virus. But because Omicron is a deviant, meaning it has deviated quite a lot from its parent Covid strain, it has many dissimilarities.
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.
Omicron Scare: People who vape and also smoked tobacco, and tested positive for Covid, complained of laboured breathing and had more frequent emergency department visits than those who did not vape.
Maharashtra has so far recorded the maximum of 1,738 cases of the Omicron variant, followed by West Bengal 1,672, Rajasthan 1,276, Delhi 549, Karnataka 548 and Kerala 536 cases.
Once the 15-18 age group is covered, he said, the government is likely to take a policy decision for initiating the vaccination drive for the 12-14 age group in March, he said. According to him, there is an estimated 7.5 crore population in the 12-14 age group.
mRNA vaccines belong to the category of nucleic acid vaccines, which use genetic material from disease-causing virus or pathogen to trigger an immune response against it within the body.
Google doodle stressed on the importance of wearing masks and getting vaccinated in the fight against the virus threat and emerging cases on Omicron variant. On Sunday, India completed one year of administering COVID-19 vaccines.
A total of 275 doctors and paramedics of various hospitals in Kashmir have tested positive for COVID-19 since January 1 this year, officials said on Sunday.
Speaking on how the pandemic can now be expected to progress, the virologist pointed out that Omicron is not "fathered, or mothered, by Wuhan-D614G, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Kappa or Mu and That much is for sure".
In South Africa, the Omicron variant replaced the other viruses within a few weeks and led to a sharp increase in the number of cases diagnosed. Analyses in various countries indicate that the doubling time for cases is approximately 2 to 4 days. Omicron has been detected in dozens of countries, including France, and became dominant by the end of 2021.
Telangana on Saturday reported 1,963 new COVID-19 cases taking the cumulative tally to 7,07,162
Other hallmarks of the coronavirus such as a runny nose, fever and cough are still just as likely to be experienced by sufferers of the new variant. But the loss of taste and smell is now much less likely to affect Covid-positive people, claims reports.
The total active cases of COVID in India have rose to 15,50,377 health ministry data showed today.
Dr Pradeep Vyas, additional chief secretary of the health department, in a letter written to his colleagues on Wednesday said that the Delta variant was found in 68 per cent samples, out of the over 4,200 analysed, while the remaining 32 per cent patients were found infected with the Omicron strain.
The World Health Organization reported a record 15 million new COVID-19 cases for the week of January 3-9, a 55 per cent increase from the previous week.
A total of 126 personnel have died so far from the infection, said the Mumbai police.
A study suggests, more than 60 per cent of the people infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the national capital did not have any travel history or contact with international travellers.
India logged 2,68,833 lakh new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hrs.
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