COVID-19
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India vaccination drive administered 1.4 million doses in the last 24 hours
India vaccination drive on Day-48 (4th March 2021), nearly 14 lakh (13,88,170) vaccine doses were given. Of these, 10.5 lakh…
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Science
Coronavirus: what happens when a person is simultaneously infected with two variants?
Scientists in Brazil recently reported that two people were simultaneously infected with two different variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.…
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India vaccination drive administer one million doses in the last 24 hours
India vaccination drive on Day-47 (3rd March 2021), nearly 10 lakh (9,94,452) vaccine doses were given. Of these, 8,31,590 beneficiaries…
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National
India becomes fastest in the world to reach 70 lakh vaccinations against COVID-19
With yet another significant achievement, India has become the fastest country in the world to achieve over 70 lakh vaccinations against…
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Technology
Trained dogs can detect COVID-19 with 94% efficiency: German study finds
Scientists managed to train dogs to detect whether human saliva contain COVID-19 virus. These dogs were trained at the Hanover…
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Art & Culture
Covid Performance Index—India ranked 86 out of 98 countries
India ranked 86 out of 98 countries in Covid Performance Index. India’s neighbors did fairly better. Pakistan stood at 69th…
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Explained
What we know about the UK variant of COVID so far!
While the world was waiting with bated breath to see off the disastrous 2020 which brought unprecedented doom and gloom…
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Featured
Less than a year to develop a COVID vaccine – here’s why you shouldn’t be alarmed
Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash Mark Toshner, University of Cambridge I’m a clinical trials geek. I keep hearing people talk about the…
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Art & Culture
AstraZeneca’s results signal more good vaccine news — but efficacy is only the beginning of the story
Shutterstock Nicholas Wood, University of Sydney AstraZeneca has become the latest pharmaceutical company to reveal promising results in clinical trials,…
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Art & Culture
Restaurants, Gym, Religious Organisation are common Superspreader sites: Study
Photo by Elijah Hiett on Unsplash Some part of the world is still grappling to the first wave of COVID-19,…
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Art & Culture
COVID-19 has changed men’s urinating habits
Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there are many social, cultural changes are observed around the globe. Undoubtedly mask…
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Featured
Pfizer vaccine: what an ‘efficacy rate above 90%’ really means
F8 Studio/Shutterstock Zania Stamataki, University of Birmingham There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech…
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Art & Culture
Study finds the safest way to sit and chat while dining
The world’s fastest supercomputer models how virus particles disperse at a dining table.RIKEN/KOBE UNIVERSITY A simulation from the Fugaku supercomputer…
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Art & Culture
Masks do block coronavirus, but not completely: Study finds
Mask Representational Image Source: Markus Winkler on Unsplash Japanese researchers have shown that masks can offer protection from airborne coronavirus particles, but…
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Art & Culture
Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu: Study
Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash The Covid-19 virus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery…
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