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COVID-19 outbreak: WHO approves Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
• 4 years agoWHO said the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first to receive its 'emergency validation' since the novel coronavirus first broke out in China a year ago
Coronavirus News Updates: Schools in Kerala to partially re-open for Classes 10, 12 tomorrow
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News Updates: In its guidelines, the General Education Department has directed that only 50 percent of students be allowed at a time in schools and that classes be arranged as one student per bench in the first week.
Coronavirus News Updates: Odisha prohibits New Year celebrations, allows reopening of cinema, theatre halls from 1 Jan
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News Updates: Cinema hall, theatres have been allowed to reopen with up to 50 percent capacity and social, religious, sports and cultural functions and gatherings will be allowed with a ceiling of 200 people, said an order
Coronavirus News Updates: Schools, colleges in Mumbai to remain shut till 15 Jan, says BMC
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News Updates: The decision was taken due to the second wave of COVID-19 in other countries and the situation in some states in India, the civic body said in a circular
India detects six cases of new COVID-19 variant after UK returnees test positive
• 4 years agoThree of the patients are in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and one in National Institute of Virology, Pune, said the health ministry
Coronavirus News Updates: One UK returnee tests positive in Maharashtra's Thane; 355 new cases reported in district
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News LIVE Updates: As many as 55 people have returned to the areas under KDMC limits from the UK from 25 November onwards, the civic body said
Coronavirus News Updates: Karnataka govt says 10 UK returnees have tested COVID-19 positive in state so far
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News LIVE Updates: Reportedly, the patients' samples have been sent for genetic sequencing to find out whether it is a new strain of virus that has infected them
Coronavirus News Updates: Seven UK returnees found COVID-19 positive in Telangana, hospitalised
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News Updates: An official release from Health Minister E Rajender said so far 1,200 people had come to Telangana from or via the United Kingdom since 12 December and efforts were on to trace people who came in contact with those found positive.
Coronavirus News Updates: Covaxin displaying encouraging results in clinical trial, claims Bharat Biotech
Fp Staff • 4 years agoCoronavirus News Updates: Covaxin, being developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Virology, is now undergoing Phase 3 trials
Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 ramps up ability to infect cells, makes it more stable: Scripps study
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoThe number, or density, of spikes on the mutated virus is 4 or 5 times greater, making it more infectious.