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Covid immunity: How long are we protected against reinfection? Large study offers new cluesWhen assessing severe disease, however, all variants showed sustained protection above 88 per cent for 40 weeks.- Covid variant BF.7 found in China, here's all about transmission rate, symptoms and health concernsThe most common COVID BF.7 variant at the moment in China, where an increasing number of cases have shocked the entire world, is Omicron BF...
- Omicron BA.2 less severe than its original and Delta variants : StudyOf 1,02,315 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US from March 3, 2020 to June 20 this year, there were 20,770 labelled as Delta variants, 52,60...
- Sanofi, GSK variant-specific Covid-19 shot found effective against Omicron"Sanofi-GSK's vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial in an environment of high Omicron varian...
- Covid variant worse than Omicron in next 2 years: UK epidemiologistUK's SAGE advisors have warned of a "realistic possibility" that a more lethal variant could emerge that kills one in three people, in line...
- What's the difference in protection against Omicron between 2 doses and 3 doses of vaccine?Evidence had emerged suggesting the highly infectious Omicron variant has the ability to escape the protection two vaccine doses offer. So,...
- Anti-Covid drugs potent against Omicron, antibody therapies less effective: StudyThe lab tests also showed that some antibodies have entirely lost their ability to neutralise Omicron at realistic dosages. "The bottom lin...
- Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot tests positive for coronavirus"This evening I got my Covid test done which came positive. I have very mild symptoms and no other problems. All the people who came in con...
- Don't let your guard down thinking Omicron is mild infection, warns AIIMS expertExperts said the Omicron virus is highly infectious and it is going to increase the herd immunity.
- Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 latelyA couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect peo...
- View: Spiralling cases shouldn’t be the only parameter for imposing restrictionsPlausibly, in the future, there will be more Covid-19 variants. But as the research shows, the T-cell response due to vaccination and infec...
- Omicron variant resistant to antibodies, two vaccine doses: StudyHowever, the study found that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca preventives may protect well against th...
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- India will see Omicron surge but cases will be mild, vaccines will help: South African expertThe chairperson of the South African Medical Association also said existing vaccines will definitely control the contagion but those unvacc...
- Omicron can evade protection offered by Covid vaccines, antibody therapies: StudyThe researchers from Columbia University in the US and the University of Hong Kong noted that a striking feature of Omicron is the alarming...
- Steady does it in the face of OmicronIndia cannot afford the luxury of knee-jerk lockdowns and other restrictions that turn out to be overkill in the face of Omicron.
- Figuring out omicron - here's what scientists are doing right now to understand the new coronavirus variantHow effective are the antibodies people already have at fighting off omicron? If you got the booster shot, are you protected? Or if you had...
- As Omicron fear goes viral again, companies bring back travel curbsThese measures come at a time when the Indian economy is showing signs of recovery. Most companies do their financial and strategic plannin...
- Why it's too soon to panic about COVID vaccines and the new variantThe worst-case scenario is the virus has mutated so much in the crucial parts of its genome that it can escape vaccines designed to protect...
- With dozens of new mutations, does Omicron cause only mild illness? What we know about new Covid variantMany of the early infections in South Africa were spotted among younger people.
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