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2021-07-16 03:35:22 GMT2021-07-16 11:35:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English CANBERRA, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Australia's national science agency has found that a "warm" COVID-19 vaccine suitable for remote locations is effective against all key variants of the virus. In a study published on Thursday, researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) evaluated the efficacy of heat-tolerant coronavirus vaccine formulations developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and biotechnology company Mynvax. They found that the formulations triggered a str...

CSIRO A ‘warm’ COVID-19 vaccine suitable for remote and resource-limited locations lacking access to cold storage supply chains is one step closer following an international collaboration between scientists from India and Australia. CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, played an important role in evaluating heat-tolerant COVID-19 vaccine formulations developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and biotech start-up Mynvax – against all current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Published today in the peer-reviewed ACS Infectious Diseases journal, researchers showed the vacc...

Victoria has entered a seven-day lockdown over concerns about a "highly infectious" variant of Covid-19.

Indian variant stuns Victorian authorities Save Share The vaccine strategy must change to recognise the fast growing outbreak of the Indian variant of the COVID-19 virus, said experts who called for “ring vaccination” to suppress the Melbourne outbreak. The Indian mutation, known as B.1.617.1 has been genomically identified as the cause of the exploding cluster in Melbourne, with chief health officer Professor Brett Sutton saying the virus was now being passed on from one infected person to around five more. This is about double the infection rate of the first wave virus from Wuhan....

A 'concerning' coronavirus cluster in Melbourne has now climbed to 15 cases  Latest cases are of the double mutant Indian strain, which is hyper-infectious   Alert issued after infected case attended the AFL game at the MCG on Sunday Acting premier said the source of the outbreak was hotel quarantine in SA  James Merlino said he won't rule out taking 'further action' on restrictions