The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine will work against the mutated strain detected in Britain. “Scientifically, it is very likely that the immune response of this vaccine can also cope with the new virus variant,” said Ugur Sahin, co-founder of BioNTech. However, “we do not …
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NEW DELHI: A group of former civil servants have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing their dismay at the remodeling of the central view The project, which they alleged, has been “marked by a degree of executive arrogance” since its inception. The 69 retired bureaucrats, under …
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With up to 20 UK passengers testing positive for Covid-19 at Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata airports, state governments have begun vigorously monitoring contracts for passengers who came from the UK or other European countries in the past 10 days. At least two people tested positive for Covid-19 in Kolkata after …
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The newspaper said 1.7 million deaths in the country were attributable to air pollution last year (Archive) New Delhi: The economic loss due to premature deaths and morbidity from air pollution was 2.60 billion rupees or 1.4 percent of GDP in India in 2019, according to a new scientific article. …
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By: Express Web Desk | Hyderabad | Updated: December 22, 2020 8:50:25 pm In less than 24 hours, 158 of them have been tracked and are being monitored, said Dr. G Sreenivasa Rao, Telangana’s director of public health. (Archive) Amid growing concern over a new strain of the new coronavirus …
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been invited as keynote guest to the Indian Republic Day parade (archive) New Delhi: It is possible that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to India (he will be the main guest at the Republic Day parade in Delhi next month) due to concerns …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 8:50:20 pm An Indian municipal worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) watches passengers arriving from the UK at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. In light of the emergence of a new, …
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KOLKATA: Minister of the Interior of the Union who rejects Amit shahthe accusation that West Bengal had fared abysmally on development rates under the present dispensation, Trinamool’s ruling Congress said Tuesday that attempts are being made to create a false narrative about the state. Dismissing the charges brought by the …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 8:02:34 pm Passengers arriving from the UK at Mumbai airport on Tuesday (Express photo) The highly infectious new strain of coronavirus found in the UK, leading some 40 countries to sever travel ties with the country, has yet …
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All samples from passengers arriving in India from the UK and testing positive for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) will be retested using a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT) test. -PCR) based on the spike gene to search for the new variant of Sars-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19, according to the union …
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