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Covid variants
Can Nasal Sprays Thwart Variants?
The leading vaccines in public use are called "mRNA vaccines" because they take inspiration from messenger ribonucleic acid, the delivery system that facilitates biological replication.…
Can New Tools Help Early COVID Detection?
Scientists at Scripps Research and University of California, San Diego, detected Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variants days before it was first reported clinically from the city's wastewater.…
CEPI Partners With Bharat Biotech to Develop Variant-Proof Covid-19 Vaccine
According to a joint statement released here, the CEPI's funding will support the consortium as it seeks to establish preclinical and clinical proof of concept for an adjuvanted subunit…
Delta Variant may Return
Last November, South African researchers detected the highly contagious Omicron variant, which has developed a variety of sub-variants that is currently spread all over the world.
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New plant-based Covid vaccine 70 per cent effective against variants: Study
A new plant-based COVID-19 vaccine is nearly 70 per cent effective against symptomatic disease caused by five variants of the coronavirus, according to results of the human clinical trial of…
Omicron may be as severe as previous COVID variants, study finds
Omicron may be intrinsically as severe as previous coronavirus variants, according to a US study which contradicts assumptions that the strain was more transmissible but less severe.
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High immune response to Covid variants in breakthrough cases after 2 Covaxin jabs:…
A recent ICMR study has shown that breakthrough cases after full vaccination with Covaxin have shown a significant increase in the immune response against coronavirus’ variants of concern —…
India records a spike in new Covid infections since yesterday – Top Covid-19 Updates
Coronavirus April 6th Latest News: According to the official data shared by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday, India reported 1,086 new coronavirus infections in a single day which took…
Omicron less Severe Than Delta for Kids Below 5 Years of Age
"Omicron is less severe than Delta, however, the reduction of the severity range in clinical outcomes is only 16 to 85 per cent," said researcher Rong Xu from the Case Western Reserve…