“Covaxin was developed against the original Wuhan variant,” a Bharat Biotech spokesperson told Reuters in a text message, referring to…
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Vigilance, not panic, to tackle Omicron, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
Vigilance, robust testing and tracing protocols, stepping up production of vaccines and proven drugs, development of new vaccines targeting new…
Continue ReadingWhy Omicron spread could be ‘good sign’ for Delta-hit world, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
Around 90% of all new infections in South Africa’s Johannesburg are due to the Omicron strain but the death rate…
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 vaccine makers start work on Omicron-tailored shots, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
The variant’s emergence has triggered a strong global response as countries worried that it could spread fast even in vaccinated…
Continue ReadingMissing ‘S’ gene in RT-PCR test can point to Omicron, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
With the emergence of the Omicron variant, public health experts want laboratories to conduct RT-PCR tests in whole for all…
Continue ReadingWHO warns Covid-19 variant Omicron risk ‘very high’, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
The UN health agency said the Covid strain first discovered in southern Africa was a “highly divergent variant with a…
Continue ReadingFirst image of new Covid variant Omicron shows many more mutations than Delta, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
On the three-dimensional “image”, which looks like a map, “we can clearly see that the Omicron variant presents many more…
Continue ReadingGovt health expenditure share in GDP increases from 1.15% to 1.35%, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
There has been an increase in the share of government health expenditure in the total GDP of the country, the…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa returnee tests Covid positive in Dombivli, sample sent to check for new strain, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
A 32-year-old merchant navy engineer who returned to his Dombivli home from Cape Town via Dubai and Delhi, has tested…
Continue ReadingCovishield, Covaxin can protect against Omicron, claim experts, Top Health News | Latest Health & Healthcare Industry Information and Updates: ET HealthWorld : ETHealthworld.com
Gangakhedkar is one of the 26 members of WHO team appointed to examine the origins of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2…
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