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COVID-19 endemic stage at least two years away, says US study

The researchers of Yale School of Medicine modelled the exposure scenario to resemble human exposures in the US, where a portion of the population is vaccinated against COVID-19 and where people continue to face natural exposure to SARS-CoV-2

Is it Omicron or Delta? CoVarScan, the new COVID-19 test, that detects all variants within hours

CoVarScan, devised at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in US, displayed a 96 per cent sensitivity and 99 per cent specificity in the testing phase

As COVID-19 cases rise, vaccines play vital role to prevent mass hospitalization, adverse outcomes

Vaccines play a crucial role in preventing infection, hospitalizations, and adverse outcomes which cause deaths

Explained: Why WHO has decided to change the name of monkeypox virus

The move comes after more than 30 scientists raised concerns that the monkeypox moniker is ‘discriminatory and stigmatising’. They said that there was an urgent need to rename the disease

Japan develops novel antiviral coating that inactivates COVID variants even in dark

The coating developed by researchers at Nara Medical University, Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, and Tokyo Institute of Technology is made using a combination of titanium dioxide and copper oxide compounds

COVID-19: Do we need new variant-targeted vaccines and how is Sputnik V better

Some SARS-CoV-2 variants are labelled as variants of concern if they become more infective, render available treatment ineffective or become more lethal. The new variants my reduce the protection offered in a population against the old variants acquired by infection or vaccination.

Omicron may not be the final variant of COVID-19, but it may be the final variant of concern

The virus cannot, however, improve indefinitely. The laws of biochemistry mean that the virus will eventually evolve a spike protein that binds to ACE2 as strongly as possible

Omicron Scare: Section 144 imposed in Mumbai till 31 Dec; check new guidelines here

Mumbai police have also banned large gatherings taking place in the city as part of measures to prevent the spread of the new variant of coronavirus

Early phase of variant always mild, understanding on Omicron possible by December-end, says top Indian scientist

The denominator is larger when it comes to India due to its size of population and hence, the total number of severe cases will be large enough to break the entire healthcare system, said Dr Anurag Agrawal, director, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology

White-tailed deer a huge reservoir of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19

A study has detected the virus in 80 percent of deer sampled in Iowa, US, concluding that deer are actively transmitting the COVID virus to one another. Presence of different SARS-CoV-2 variants, suggests human-to-deer infections