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The US has asked South Korea to discourage its chipmakers from filling any gap in China if Micron is banned, following a cybersecurity review by CAC. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were asked to hold back from boosting sales to China. The US has imposed export controls on chipmaking technology to China for fear it could be used for military purposes and blacklisted several Chinese chip firms, including Micron's rival Yangtze Memory Technologies.

The United States asked South Korea to urge its chipmakers not to fill any market gap in China if Beijing bans memory chipmaker Micron from selling chips, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. ... | April 23, 2023

Driven by XBB.1.16, India on Saturday recorded 12,193 fresh COVID-19 cases in a span of 24 hours, with the number of active cases of the infection going up to 67,556, according to the Union health ministry.  

The present wave will come down to the endemic stage by May 15 and a downward trend will be seen next month, says Sawant

The number of new daily Covid-19 cases in Bangkok has surged from 400 to 700, nearly twice the number of cases reported before the Songkran festival.

According to the Maharashtra health department, the XBB.1.16 is the dominant variant of Omicron that was driving the case surge. So far, 681 cases caused by this variant have been detected and five infected persons have succumbed in the state

XBB.1.16 was first reported on January 9, this year and designated a variant under monitoring (VUM) on March 22.

We can ignore the virus, but the virus won’t ignore us.

Research explains how the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads efficiently by directly infecting neighboring cells through a process called cell-to-cell transmission. The virus uses a protein called occludin (OCLN) to enter the cells and causes syncytium formation, which leads to viral spread.

Survey by Chinese University of 10,000 people said to be Asia’s largest study of people with long Covid.