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Moderna CEO Warns COVID-19 Shots Less Effective Against Omicron

Omicron - which the World Health Organization (WHO) said carries a "very high" risk of infection surges - has triggered global alarm, with border closures casting a shadow over a nascent economic recovery from a two-year pandemic.

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Omicron Adds New Uncertainties To Global Economic Outlook: Moody's

"The Omicron variant of COVID-19 adds new measures of uncertainty to the outlook for the global economy, although it is too soon to adequately quantify that risk.

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India To Push For Patent Waiver For Covid Vaccines At World Trade Body

A year after India and South Africa introduced a proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and therapies at the WTO, negotiations are deadlocked in the face of opposition from some developed countries.

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More Indians Opting For "Costly" Flu Shots As Pandemic Raises Awareness

Vaccinations against influenza are not very common in the country due to a lack of awareness, access and steep prices, and they are also not part of the centre's universal immunization program that includes polio, tuberculosis and Hepatitis B.

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The Rise Of Virtual Care - The Telemedicine Paradigm

The pandemic has led to major shifts in healthcare, with technology being leveraged in several innovative ways to improve the penetration, delivery, and safety of healthcare services. Telemedicine is but one of these radical alterations to the healthcare landscape.

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Booster Shots For India? Not Yet, Say Experts: Report

As vaccine supplies have increased, some doctors and public health experts in India have urged the government to start a booster programme for the most vulnerable like many Western nations have done.

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Govt Allows Serum Institute To Export 50L Covishield Doses To 4 Nations

In addition to these three countries, the SII will also export Covishield to Bangladesh under COVAX, they said.

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Zydus Cadila Gets USFDA Nod To Market Generic Cancer Drug In US

Decitabine is used to treat myelodysplastic syndromes, certain types of blood or bone marrow cancer.

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110 Nations Agree To Recognise India's Covid Vaccine Certificates: Report

The Union government continues to be in communication with the rest of the world so that beneficiaries of the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination program are accepted and recognised, thereby easing travel for education, business and tourism purposes.

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India 'Prepares For The Worst' Ahead Of Possible Covid-19 Third Wave

Ganga Ram is raising its oxygen storage capacity by 50%, has laid a one-kilometre-long pipeline carrying the gas directly to COVID ICUs, and is installing equipment to keep the oxygen flow high.

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No Cash, Only Soft Incentives For Taking Covid-19 Vaccines: S African Health Minister

Phaahla also said that government would not participate in any debate to make vaccines compulsory, leaving this to the private sector to implement as it saw fit.

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India's Fragmented Healthcare System: Filling The Cracks

It is necessary to bring in operational transparency in medical services in order make the healthcare processes more accountable.

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Kids Covid Jab: To Whom It May Concern

We should start vaccinating children as soon as the vaccine trial results are declared and the government announces the recommendation. And off course when the vaccine is available Are we ready?

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Mixing Of Covaxin & Covishield: Efficacy Check

The puzzling question that is arising as of now is about the contrasting effects of the two vaccines on protection and potency.

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COVID-19 May Become A Mostly Childhood Disease In Few Years: Study

The US-Norwegian team noted that because COVID-19 severity is generally lower among children, the overall burden from this disease is expected to decline as the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes endemic in the global population.

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