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]]>While earlier this rule was only applicable for arrivals from the UK, Europe and Middle East, seven more countries – South Africa, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe – have been added to the list today, according to a latest guideline by Ministry of Health.
The new variant was first detected in South Africa in May. It has since been found in China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, England, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.
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]]>The post Moderna’s Shot Creates Twice As Many Antibodies As Pfizer, Study Shows appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>A study of almost 2,500 workers at a major Belgium hospital system found antibody levels among individuals who hadn’t been infected with the coronavirus before getting two doses of the Moderna vaccine averaged 2,881 units per milliliter, compared with 1,108 units/mL in an equivalent group who got two jabs of the Pfizer shot.
The results, published Monday in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested the differences might be explained by the:
– higher amount of active ingredient in the Moderna vaccine — 100 micrograms, versus 30 micrograms in Pfizer-BioNTech
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]]>Dr SK Sarin from Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), Dr Suresh Kumar from Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), and Dr Sandeep Budhiraja from Max have been named.
The state government had received 9,427 suggestions, out of those 740 were for doctors and the rest for paramedical staff.
The names were picked by a three-member committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
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]]>The post Pfizer Jab Side Effects In 12-15 Year Olds Mild To Moderate: Study appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The findings of the study were published in the journal ”Archives of Disease in Childhood”.
Although the study numbers are small, the data are representative of those teens most likely to benefit from the vaccination, and should offer reassurance to parents and clinicians, said the authors.
Healthy children with COVID-19 infection generally have a mild illness, but some coexisting conditions, particularly neurological conditions, are associated with severe disease.
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]]>The post ‘India May Be Entering Endemic Stage Of Covid’: WHO Chief Scientist appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It’s very different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population.
On clearance to Covaxin, she said she is fairly confident that the WHO’s technical group will be satisfied to give Covaxin clearance to be one of its authorised vaccines and that could happen by mid-SeptemberWe may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is low level transmission or moderate level transmission going on but we are not seeing the kinds of exponential growth and peaks that we saw a few months ago,” Ms Swaminathan said.
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]]>The post Delta Variant Cases Show 300 Times Higher Viral Load, Shows South Korea Study appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>But the amount gradually decreased over time – to 30 times in four days and over 10 times in nine days – and it matched levels seen in other variants after 10 days, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Tuesday.
The higher load means the virus spreads far more easily from person to person, increasing infections and hospitalisations, a health ministry official Lee Sang-won told a news conference.
“But it doesn’t mean Delta is 300 times more infectious…we think its transmission rate is 1.6 times the Alpha variant, and about two times the original version of the virus,” Lee said.
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]]>The post Zydus To Produce 1 Crore Doses Per Month By October, Says Chief appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The company said it will produce 3-5 crore doses by December-January, adding that it will not be able to meet the government’s commitment of 5 crore doses in August.
It is in talks with some third party companies about a production alliance, and technology transfer.
The vaccine cost, said the company, will factor in new technology and delivery mechanism.
The three-dose vaccine, developed in partnership with the Department of Biotechnology, is the second home-grown shot to get emergency authorisation in India after Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. Overall, it is the sixth vaccine authorised for use in the country.
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]]>Results from Astra’s study found no one in the trial who received the cocktail contracted severe Covid-19 or died in relation to the disease, the company said in a statement Friday. The trial of 5,197 participants, which started in November, was looking at whether the drug could prevent infection in at-risk groups and took place in the U.S., U.K., Belgium, France and Spain.
The outcome will be a big relief for Astra after another study testing whether the cocktail could prevent symptomatic Covid-19 in people explicitly exposed to the virus failed in June. The findings may also salvage a deal with the U.S. to purchase the drug. The U.S. had ordered as many as 700,000 doses for delivery in 2021, the value of which was partly contingent on the failed trial.
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]]>The post Over 3.86 crore people didn’t get a second dose of covid vaccine within stipulated time : Govt. appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>According to information on the CoWin portal, as of thursday afternoon 44,22,85,854 people have received their first dose, while 12,59,07,443 have also taken their second.
Activist Raman Sharma haad filed a query under the right to information (RTI) Act, seeking to know from the government the number of people who had received the first dose of vaccines–Covishield and Covaxin-but did not take the second within the stipulated time period. In response to the query, The Covid-19 vaccine administration cell of the Union health ministry said it is recommended the second dose of Covisheild be taken within 24-112 days after the first while in case of Covaxin the gap should be between 28-42 days.
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]]>Over 87,000 people across the country have been reported Covid positive after the second dose of vaccination, while 46 per cent of those cases are from Kerala, top Health Ministry sources have told NDTV.
Kerala reported close to 80,000 Covid cases after the first dose of vaccination, while 40,000 people were reported infected after the second dose, the sources said.
The spike in breakthrough infections in the state, which has been witnessing a surge in daily cases, has become a cause of concern for the Union Health Ministry.
Some 200 samples of breakthrough infections have been put through genomic sequence but no mutation or variant has been found so far, the sources added.
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