Page 12 - Latest Updates on Delta variant of coronavirus
Biden administration to significantly ease pandemic mask guidelines
Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines against Covid transmission meaning most Americans will no longer be advised to wear masks in indoor public settings.
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Data story: India logs 14,148 new cases; death toll rises to 512,924
India has so far administered 1,765,231,385 vaccine doses. That is 4116.56 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.99 per cent of its population
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S. Africa building firm WBHO quits Australia, blames Covid-19 restrictions
South Africa's building firm giant Wilson Bayly Holmes - Ovcon Ltd said it is pulling out of Australia, saying the country's strict Covid response impacted its property market.
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Booster dose: Dose gap, natural infection slow offtake among 60-plus
Experts are also questioning the nine-month gap between the second and the third doses
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Omicron sibling BA.2 remains variant of concern: World Health Organisation
The Omicron variant of concern is currently the dominant variant circulating globally, accounting for nearly all sequences reported to GISAID (an open access database), said the WHO in a statement
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Reinfection with different subtypes of Omicron is possible: Study
While the chances are rare, reinfection with BA.2 can occur shortly after initial BA.1 infection, according to a study by Danish researchers.
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Are variants leading us closer to herd immunity against Covid-19?
Herd immunity is when enough of a population is immune to a virus that it's hard for the germ to spread to those who aren't protected by vaccination or a prior infection
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Data story: India logs 15,102 new cases; death toll rises to 512,622
India has so far administered 1,761,939,020 vaccine doses. That is 4110.24 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.75 per cent of its population
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Hong Kong offers tax breaks, handouts for Covid relief in 2022-23 budget
Hong Kong will offer tax breaks, handouts and subsidies to small businesses and residents, to mitigate the impact of a new wave of social restrictions to curb Covid infections, said Finance Secretary.
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Beijing finds most daily local Covid cases in nearly a month
Beijing on Wednesday reported the highest number of daily local Covid cases since late January, less than two weeks before the opening of China's annual parliamentary meeting in capital on March 5.
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Covid vaccine shots unlikely to prompt rare inflammation in kids
COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus infection in children, according to an analysis of US government data published Tuesday.
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Data story: India logs 13,405 new cases; active tally drops below 200,000
India has so far administered 1,758,327,441 vaccine doses. That is 4103.26 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.5 per cent of its population
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Hong Kong detects Covid in samples from packaging of pork, beef imports
Hong Kong authorities said they found Covid in samples taken from the packaging of imports of frozen beef from Brazil and frozen pork skin from Poland, vowing to step up inspections of imported food.
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Covid death payouts given to 2,216 applicants in Mumbai, says BMC
BMC on Monday said out of 35,138 applications received by it for compensation from relatives of patients who died due to Covid, a financial aid of Rs 50,000 each has been paid to 2,216 applicants.
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Covid waves getting smaller in India; US, France show a similar trajectory
Brazil and India have been similar with respect to the three waves
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Omicron BA.2 sub-variant will not cause another Covid-19 surge, says expert
'BA.2 is a sub-lineage of Omicron and is essentially as same as Omicron that was identified in November in South Africa'
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Data story: India logs 16,051 cases; smallest single-day jump in 2022
India has so far administered 1,754,625,710 vaccine doses. That is 4095.9 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.23 per cent of its population
Data story: India logs 19,968 new cases; death toll rises to 511,903
India has so far administered 1,753,722,697 vaccine doses. That is 4095.33 per cent of its total caseload, and 125.17 per cent of its population
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Maharashtra records 1,635 Covid cases, 29 deaths and 4,394 recoveries
Maharashtra on Saturday recorded 1,635 fresh Coronavirus cases and 29 fatalities, taking the tally of infections to 78,56,994 and the toll to 1,43,576, the state health department said.
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Covaxin to be evaluated as Covid vaccine candidate in US: Bharat Biotech
Ocugen Inc is co-developing the Covaxin vaccine candidate for Covid in the US and Canada
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