India kick-started the Vaccination drive against COVID-19 from January 16 and till January 17, the country had immunised approximately 2.24 lakh people ...
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Coronavirus Explainers
Coronavirus Explainers
Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-1273 are mRNA (messenger-RNA) vaccines developed in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic ...
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Though the mutant strains of the Coronavirus tend to spread faster and be more infectious, they do not seem to cause more severe illness or a higher death rate ...
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According to the Government of India, Co-WIN has been made primarily to help track the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, monitor beneficiaries and enable citizens to register for the vaccination process ...
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As India plans to roll out the massive vaccination drive for coronavirus in coming days, we speak to experts to decode the process of vaccination programme for COVID-19 - who will get COVID-19 vaccine first, how can one register ...
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According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the aim of the COVID-19 vaccine dry run which started on January 2, is to assess operational feasibility, to test the linkages between planning and implementation, and identify the challenges and guide the way forward prior to actual implementation ...
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According to experts, while the new strains of mutated coronavirus detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa are not more deadly, the increase in the rate of transmission makes it challenging to manage ...
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Experts explain mild symptoms of COVID-19 and suggest that early attention and diagnosis is imperative for fighting the pandemic ...
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The FELUDA COVID-19 test which resembles a home pregnancy paper-strip test uses advanced technology to identify and target the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in less than one hour ...
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According to experts, R number helps in understanding how fast and wide is the infection spreading; but what exactly is the R number and why does it matter during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? ...
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Dr Randeep Guleria, the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), says that despite the downward trend in COVID-19 cases, it is important to sustain this in the coming festive season and winter months ...
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While most COVID-19 cases in India remain asymptomatic, here’s what Dr Vincent Rajkumar, editor-in-chief of Blood Cancer Journal thinks about the prevalence of asymptomatic coronavirus patients in India ...
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