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New findings in the UK show vaccines provide a high level of protection against infection and illness after a single dose. The US said drugmakers won’t have to perform giant efficacy trials for new vaccines or booster shots developed to combat new variants. The US is poised to reach 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, though the pace of fatalities has slowed dramatically. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Covid spread among dozens of students and teachers in a Geor...

Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent The Executive Director of the World Health Organisations Health Emergencies Programme has warned that after frontline workers and the most vulnerable are vaccinated, reopening society will need to be managed carefully. Dr Mike Ryan who received Trócaires Romero Award at an online ceremony today said if societies open up, the virus will spread again and it will cause massive disruption. He called for prioritisation in relation to children returning to sc...

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Comments ATexas teenager has been forced to use her entire college savings to prevent her single mother from being evicted after she lost her job amid a raging pandemic. Alondra Carmona of Houston made the appeal on crowdfunding site GoFundMe, noting that she had been accepted into prestigious New York university Barnard College, but that she used the money she had saved for tuition in order to save her mother. Some of the world’s top scientists are condemnin...

The pandemic didn’t begin in a Chinese laboratory. Nor did it start in Wuhan. Nor indeed, in all probability, did it start in China at all. If the Chinese were hoping to be exonerated from blame over the origins of the coronavirus that has caused nearly 2.5 million deaths worldwide, they could not have wished for better than yesterday’s World Health Organisation findings. The investigation by the joint WHO-China mission to investigate the origins of the outbreak is a disgrace. As someone wh...

The Global Vaccine Alliance, GAVI, a lead partner in the WHO-led COVAX initiative for COVID-19 vaccines has said the portfolio will continue rolling out the AstraZeneca vaccine despite a study showing that it was less effective against a new fast-spreading variant of the novel coronavirus first detected in South Africa

With experts saying coronavirus might never go away completely, evolving vaccines and treatments will be crucial to fight the disease....

Three WHO officials reportedly complained about the lack of data from China The internal conversation allegedly occurred at the beginning of the pandemic One official urged his colleagues to put pressure on Beijing to be forthcoming Another confessed we could get nothing after asking China about the virus The WHO has come under heavy criticism over its handling of the pandemic

Failure to provide global access to Covid vaccines risks fresh outbreaks through travel or the emergence of new variants

UK coronavirus strain present in 82 countries, South African strain in 40: WHO The UK strain has proven to transmit more easily than previous variants of the virus. Also, the WHO said that the South African variant--501Y.V2 is less susceptible to antibody neutralisation than previous variants BusinessToday.In | February 2, 2021 | Updated 10:01 IST New UK strain has now spread to 82 countries New COVID strains that make the virus more contagious and could render vaccine and antibody protection ...