During the pandemic, it became clear that children who contracted COVID-19 became less ill than adults. One hypothesis has been that common colds would give children immunity protecting against a …
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Representative image of Covid 19 deaths. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Montreal/CMEDIA: Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in Quebec reportedly remained unchanged in the last few hours, but new deaths have continued …
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B. Vijay Murty IBNS: When a vaccination team came to her home in Pakistan’s central Karachi district, Noor Jehan gently told the health workers she wouldn’t get a COVID-19 booster …
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By Rabia Umaima Ahmed in Pakistan and Devina Buckshee in India IBNS: When Amina Zia in Pakistan lost her husband to COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, she …
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New York: As COVID-19 infections surge in China, coronavirus experts gathered at the UN health agency on Tuesday, to discuss next steps. In Geneva, a spokesperson for the WHO confirmed …
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New Delhi/IBNS: All fliers from China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand will have to submit a negative Covid-19 test report before arrival in India starting Jan 1, Union Health …
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Beijing/IBNS: China might have witnessed 248 million people, or nearly 18 percent of the total population, contracting COVID-19 during the first 20 days of December, a leaked document has shown. …
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New Delhi/ IBNS: Four cases of BF.7 sub-variant of Omicron, which is responsible for the huge Covid-19 surge in China, have been found in the Indian states of Gujarat and Odisha. The …
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Zhengzhou/IBNS: Chinese authorities have imposed a lockdown in Zhengzhou district, a region that houses the world’s largest iPhone factory, to combat Covid-19 spread, media reports said. The lockdown started on …
Read More Toronto: During the sixth wave of the pandemic, Ontario’s report of 109 new COVID-19 deaths over the past seven days is reportedly the single highest weekly death count since early May. …
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