NEW DELHI: People who are immunosuppressed or who take drugs that affect the immune system are advised not to take anti-Covid vaccine Covaxin, a detailed fact sheet published by its manufacturer Bharat Biotech said. Previously, the government had said that patients taking immunosuppressants or suffering from immunodeficiency he could take …
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NEW DELHI: Twenty people who returned to India from the UK have tested positive for the new UK variant SARS-CoV-2 genome so far, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The count includes six people who tested positive for the new strain of the virus on Tuesday. The ministry said …
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NEW DELHI: The new UK variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is 70% more transmissible, has been detected in India with at least seven returnees from the country, including a 2-year-old girl, who tested positive for the mutant variant, the government said Tuesday even as it assured the vaccines under …
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NEW DELHI: Temporary suspension of India-UK flights may be extended beyond December 31, aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said Tuesday. India suspended passenger flights to and from the UK last week between December 23 and December 31, after a growing list of countries including Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, …
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NEW DELHI: All international passengers who arrived in India on December 9-22 and tested positive for Covid-19 will undergo genome sequencing as part of the Center’s strategy to detect the mutated coronavirus strain that has emerged in the UK recently. Others will be followed by state and district surveillance officers, …
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No restrictions on movement of freight carriers and emergency services On Wednesday, the Karnataka government announced a night curfew between December 24 and January 2 in view of the new strain of the new coronavirus. A night curfew has been imposed in the state according to suggestions from the technical …
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With the Center banning flights to and from the UK, from midnight December 22 to December 31, in light of a new and highly infectious strain of virus Detected there, the Karnataka government has decided to track all the passengers who had arrived in Bengaluru and Mangaluru from the UK …
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NEW DELHI: To closely monitor the potentially more infectious new strain of coronavirus, the Health Ministry has asked state governments to send samples from passengers who tested positive upon arrival from the UK to the National Institute of Virology ( NIV). ), Pune or any other laboratory designated for the …
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NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for people who have recently traveled to the UK in light of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant detected in northwestern Europe. The Union Ministry of Health that published the SOPs said that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is more …
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NEW DELHI: Delhi recorded 1,091 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the lowest level in around four months, as the total number of those cases rose to 6,17,005 in the national capital, authorities said. Twenty-six more deaths brought the death toll from the disease to 10,277 in the city. The positivity …
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