NEW DELHI: India reported the first six cases of the mutant strain of Coronavirus, as six returnees from the UK tested positive, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. He said the mutated UK strain was detected in samples at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, at CCMB, Hyderabad and one at NIV, Pune. All of …
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NEW DELHI: The new strain of Coronavirud found in the UK has so far not been seen in India, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. “No significant mutation has yet been detected in the coronavirus strain in India,” the Health Ministry reported, adding that there is no cause for concern …
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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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The UK National Health Service is preparing for mass vaccination (Representational) London: A coronavirus vaccine, jointly developed by scientists at the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, may be approved by health regulators later this year, according to a report by UK media. The candidate vaccine is the …
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was mulling a second national lockdown on Monday, as an accelerating outbreak of coronavirus threatened to destroy any buds of economic recovery and send millions back into isolation. The UK already has the highest official death toll from Covid-19 in Europe, and the fifth …
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BERLIN: In a major diplomatic upheaval to China, Germany has decided to focus on maintaining stronger partnerships with democratic countries in the Indo-Pacific region in order to promote the rule of law. Berlin’s drift towards the Indo-Pacific strategy comes as Europe has expressed concern about China’s human rights record and …
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NEW YORK: Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate are temporarily on hold while the company investigates whether a recipient’s “potentially unexplained” illness is a side effect of the injection. In a statement issued Tuesday night, the company said its “standard review process caused a pause in vaccination to allow …
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