Tag Archives: COVID-19

‘Paadum Nila’ SP Balasubrahmanyam no more

The legendary singer, who was hospitalized in August after testing positive for COVID-19, died Friday afternoon at a private hospital in Chennai. Legendary playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away in a private hospital in Chennai on Friday. He was 74 years old. Balasubrahmanyam was hospitalized in August at MGM Healthcare …

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Covid-19: what you need to know today

Like three other companies with Covid-19 vaccine candidates undergoing phase 3 clinical trials, Johnson & Johnson, on Wednesday, released elaborate documentation of its clinical trial protocol (it has the largest phase 3 trials of all the candidates so far, about 60,000 people). This unprecedented level of disclosure, which has never …

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A more contagious strain of virus dominates in US, study finds

A study to analyze the structure of the coronavirus from two waves of infections in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers at Houston Methodist Hospital said Wednesday. They studied more than 5,000 virus genomes found in the earliest phase of the Houston pandemic …

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Union MoS for Railways Suresh Angadi Dies Due to COVID-19

New Delhi: The Minister of State for Railways and Karnataka BJP deputy Suresh Angadi passed away on Wednesday, days after testing positive for COVID-19. The 65-year-old man passed away around 8 p.m. at the AIIMS trauma center, which has been converted into a dedicated COVID-19 facility. Angadi, Belagavi’s fourth-term deputy, …

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