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The World Health Organisation is creating a global training center to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments using the messenger RNA technology that has successfully been used to make COVID-19 vaccines. At a press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros ...

New Delhi, Feb 8: Omicron variant is the dominant variant in the country presently and the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the country is showing a sustained declining trend since January 21, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.With the reporting of Omicron, a ...

90% cases due to Omicron variant, say experts ‘People who recover from Omicron won’t get Delta infection’ Jahangeer Ganaie Srinagar, Jan 27 (KNO): Third wave of Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir is driven by contagious variant Omicron and it is likely that over 90 percent cases in the UT are ...

Srinagar: Ever since the Omicron-driven third wave of Covid-19 began in Kashmir Valley, Shopian has been the only district to have consistently reported very few cases. It is not just due to natural immunity or the salubrious mountain environment, but is testimony to how plans for containment of the ...

India oi-Vicky Nanjappa | Published: Friday, January 14, 2022, 9:19 New Delhi, Jan 14: A United Nations report said on Thursday that the deadly wave of COVID-19 Delta variant stole 240,000 lives in India between April and June in 2021 and disrupted economic recovery, and warned that "similar ...

The Union government has asked nine states and Union Territories to boost coronavirus testing amid the spread of the Omicron variant, reported PTI on Thursday. These states and Union Territories are Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Jammu and Kashmir and Bihar.In a letter sent on ...

India oi-Madhuri Adnal | Published: Sunday, January 2, 2022, 10:29 New Delhi, Jan 02: The Omicron variant of coronavirus is steadily rising in India as the tally has crossed the 1500-mark on Sunday after recording the highest single-day rise of 93 fresh cases of the new variant. Cases ...

Issued on: 24/12/2021 - 22:35 Over 4,500 flights were cancelled around the world by Saturday and thousands more were delayed as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupted holiday travel, according to tracking website Flightaware. One route, however, was thankfully not affected: Santa was on track delivering presents to children ...

Three cases of Omicron have been detected in Jammu, the first instance of the new variant of the COVID-19 virus in Jammu and Kashmir. According to Health and Medical Education Department Jammu and Kashmir, the samples were taken on November 30 and RTPCR testing of the entire locality has ...

‘We’re spending more for less’: Canadian food bills are surging. These three families told us how they cope | The Star (","heading":"","fullWindow":false,"fullBleed":false,"showFullBleedOnMobile":false,"headColor":"","type":"html5mobile","textColor":"","mobileImageUrl":"","bgColor":"","imageUrl":"","registeredOnly":false,"linkUrl":"","aodaTitle":"Less for more","internalScroll":false,"displayStyle":"small-up"},{"text":"The recent surge in food costs has been 19 months in the making, fuelled by a combination of pandemic-era restrictions, supply chain problems, worker shortages and ...