Health | - Part 26

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Over 180 crore doses of corona vaccine administered so far; Recovery rate at 98.73 percent

ION correspondentMarch 19, 2022March 19, 2022

More than 180 crore 97 lakh COVID vaccine doses have been administered in the country so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive. Health Ministry said, more than 15 lakh 77...

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India administers over 180.80 crore COVID vaccine doses; Recovery rate stands at 98.73 percent

ION correspondentMarch 17, 2022March 17, 2022

Over 180 crore 40 lakh vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive. Health Ministry said, over 19 lakh 64 thousand doses were administered yesterday. The...

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New COVID-19 variant detected in Israel

ION correspondentMarch 17, 2022March 17, 2022

Israel said that it had recorded two cases of a new Covid variant. “This variant is still unknown around the world,” Israel’s ministry of health said in a statement....

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India records 1.74 lakh new Covid cases; active cases decline to 12,25,011

ION correspondentFebruary 6, 2022February 6, 2022

India added 1,07,474 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally of COVID-19 infections to 4,21,88,138, while the active cases further declined to 12,25,011, according to the Union Health Ministry...

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India’s COVID vaccination coverage crosses 169 crore mark

ION correspondentFebruary 6, 2022February 6, 2022

India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage crossed 169 Crore mark yesterday. Till now over 169 crore 40 lakh 55 thousand doses have been administered. Health Ministry said, more than 40 lakh...

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India records 1.61 lakh new Covid-19 cases, 1,733 deaths in last 24 hours

ION correspondentFebruary 2, 2022February 2, 2022

India recorded 1,61,386 new Covid-19 cases, 1,733 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the total death toll to 4,97,975, according to the data released by the Ministry of...

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Omicron sub-variant could be more infectious, Found In 57 Countries: WHO

ION correspondentFebruary 2, 2022February 2, 2022

A subvariant of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus strain, which some studies indicate could be even more infectious than the original version, has been detected in 57 countries, the...

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Covid to end up as seasonal epidemic soon: experts

ION correspondentJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022

Even as the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly across the world, and outpacing the previous Delta strain, several Russian and Danish experts have said that the pandemic will end...

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Fourth Covid booster enhances antibodies five-fold: Israeli study

ION correspondentJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022

Amid rising cases of Omicron, a preliminary study by Israeli researchers has shown that the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold in just a week after the...

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In a first US surgeons successfully transplant pig heart into human patient

ION correspondentJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022

In what is dubbed as a ‘first-of-its-kind surgery’, the US surgeons have performed a successful transplant of a ‘porcine’ heart into an adult human with end-stage heart disease. The...