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China lab claims to have made nasal Covid-19 vaccine for ‘future pandemicsThe Chinese city where the infamous Covid-19 virus originated has now developed an innovative vaccine that is projected to safeguard humani...
Covid-19 was created as a 'bioweapon' by China: Wuhan researcherThe deadly SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, was deliberately engineered as a "bioweapon" by China, claimed a researcher at the infamo...
Next Covid-19 strain may be more dangerous: Lab studyThe study, led by Alex Sigal at the Africa Health Research Institute in the South African city of Durban, indicates that the Covid-19 patho...
Boston University claims to have produced new Covid strain with 80 per cent kill rate. Details hereBoston University's scientists produced a new COVID strain that is highly potent and has an 80 per cent probability of killing an infected ...
'Completely new' Covid strains possible this winter: EUIt will include a mix of newly-approved jabs adapted for the now dominant Omicron strain, and the original vaccines developed to fight the ...
Shots for variants won't be any game changers: Epidemiologist Gagandeep Kang"Now would an Omicron-based vaccine also protect against the infection? That is the big question, and the virus that we are seeing now is a...
In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerveWhile no human cholera case was found among people who came in contact with the softshell turtles, the specific store selling them was orde...
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...
Wuhan's first Covid-19 patients still suffering after two yearsThe findings bring home the challenge of dealing with Covid’s aftermath as millions of people -- some of them children and teens -- grapple...
How will Covid-19 variant Delta evolve? Here's what the theory tells usEvolution is a result of random mutations (or errors) in the viral genome when it replicates. A few of these random mutations will be good ...
Delta variant shows 8-fold sensitivity to vaccine elicited antibodies: StudyAs per the study, the variant is less sensitive to neutralising antibodies from recovered individuals, with higher replication efficiency a...
SAJA advises news organisations against using 'India variant' term for new COVID-19 strainIn a statement, the association said that its guidance is in keeping with best practices issued in 2015 by the World Health Organisation (W...
WHO team probing Covid origins in China to brief media"The international team working to understand the origins of the Covid-19 virus is completing its four weeks' stay in Wuhan, China and toge...
China reports 34 new coronavirus cases; submits virus genome sequence to WHOBeijing reported 22 newly confirmed domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases and two asymptomatic cases on Friday, the municipal health comm...
Scientists estimate Covid may have entered India in November-DecemberTop scientists in the country have estimated that the ancestor of the novel coronavirus strain from Wuhan was in circulation by Dec 11, 201...
Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses: Chinese state mediaScientists think COVID-19 -- which first emerged in Wuhan and has killed some 340,000 people worldwide -- originated in bats and could have...
Wuhan's L-strain may be behind Gujarat's high death rate: ExpertsThe dominance of the more virulent L-type coronavirus strain as compared to the S-type one could be behind the high mortality rate in the s...
ET Explains: Everything you need to know about coronavirusThe deadly outbreak has claimed lives of over 169,000 people and infected nearly 2,500,000 globally. The WHO has declared it a pandemic.
Wuhan virology lab chief denies COVID-19 originated from institute, says virus 'cannot be man made'The Director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the sou...
COVID-19: China's imported cases rise to 1,566; revised death toll 4,632The country's National Health Commission (NHC) announced the revised national figures of coronavirus, taking note of Wuhan's new data. As p...