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China’s daily Covid cases surge past 20,000 amid lockdowns
China reported 20,472 new daily Covid cases for Tuesday, as widespread lockdowns and mass testing in Shanghai and other parts of the country turn up a rising number of infections.
The current outbreak has already surpassed the number of…
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Covid-19 outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown
The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.
Director of Shanghai's working group on…
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Covid 4th wave: 5 facts on new variant XE and how worried should we be?
The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over. There is the fourth wave in some of the Asian and European countries due to Omicron sub-variant BA.2. And now, another deadly and rapidly spreading Covid variant XE has been detected. The World Health…
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SII’s Covovax Becomes The Fourth Jab To Be Used For Vaccination Of 12-17 Age Group
The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) has recommended Serum Institute of India’s Covovax for vaccination of those aged 12 years and above.
India’s drug regulator had approved Covid-19 vaccine Covovax for restricted…
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China Finds New Virus Subtype As Daily Cases Exceed 13,000
China added more than 13,000 new Covid-19 infections with state media reporting a case infected with a new subtype of the omicron variant.
The new iteration of the virus, isolated from a mild Covid-19 patient in a city less than 70…
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Global covid cases top 490 million, concerns over XE variant
While countries around the world are working to flatten the coronavirus curve, global Covid-19 cases on Sunday topped 490 million. According to the John Hopkins University data, the world has witnessed over 6.15 million deaths due to the…
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UK hits record Covid-19 levels; nearly 5 million infected
The prevalence of Covid-19 in the UK has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, according to the latest figures from Britain's official statistics agency.
Some 4.9 million…
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Global cases dropped as March ended, concerns over new XE variant
An increase in Covid cases in the first two weeks of March in several European countries, and China and South Korea, among other nations, had kept the world on edge amid fears of resurgence of deadly waves that put the global health systems…
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New Covid-19 mutant XE could be most transmissible one yet
A new mutant of the novel coronavirus known as XE appears to be around ten per cent more transmissible than the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron, as per the World Health Organisation.
Until now, the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was considered…
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Hong Kong asks 7.4 million population to take Covid home tests 3 days in a row
Hong Kong authorities on Saturday asked the entire population of more than 7.4 million people to voluntarily test themselves for COVID-19 at home for three days in a row starting next week.
The announcement by Chief Executive Carrie Lam…
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