Day: January 17, 2021

Image credit: tenkende / 123rf COVID-19 vaccine exports will commence in the weeks to come, the Government has confirmed. This is despite earlier confusion that the country’s largest vaccine manufacturer was not authorised to do so. India is gearing up […]

Image credit: luzitanija / 123rf India’s states and union territories (UTs) can expect to receive COVID-19 vaccine supplies soon and should be prepared, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said. A communique from Dr Pradeep Halder, an […]

Image credit: 罗 宏志 / 123rf Cases of the mutant strain of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom now number at 82 in India, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The mutant strain of the […]

Image credit: 罗 宏志 / 123rf The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 have surpassed ninety million. The global death toll due to the disease inches towards two million as fatalities number at more than 1.9 million. India remains the […]

A new mutant strain of COVID-19 has been identified according to a statement issued by the Japanese Health Ministry.  Image credit: tumsasedgars / 123rf This new mutant strain has been identified to be entirely isolated from the strains arising in […]

More than three quarters of those who have contracted COVID-19 still have some form of symptom six months later according to a recent study published in The Lancet. Image credit: quatrox / 123rf “Because COVID-19 is such a new disease, […]

A hospital ward for testing of COVID-19 in Bengaliuru, where cases of a rare fungal infections among COVID-19 patients have been detected. Image credit: Ajay Bhaskar / 123rf Eight COVID-19 patients in the Karnataka state capital Bengaluru have been found […]

Image credit: Ivan Uralsky / 123rf States are beginning to receive COVID-19 vaccine shipments ahead of the rollout of a mass inoculation campaign officials anticipate to be the world’s biggest. Officials hope that the coming six to eight months will […]

Image credit: lightwise / 123rf Despite countries the world over rolling out immunisation programmes, herd immunity is unlikely to be achieved this year according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “We are not going to achieve any levels of population […]

Image credit: miluxian / 123RF Running in parallel with the COVID-19 pandemic has been an ‘infodemic’. The spread of misinformation related to the novel coronavirus and vaccines, particularly online, has alarmed many commentators. To address this, Google has announced a […]