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Dr T Jacob John, former director of ICMR’s Centre of Advanced Research in Virology said that both the variants of Omicron and Delta will co-circulate in the time to come. Even as we are at a long distance from the end of the Covid-19 third…

The Omicron variant of coronavirus infects and multiplies 70 times faster than Delta and the original Covid-19 strain, but the severity of illness is likely to be much lower, according to a study.The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study provides…

Dr Dumois further said that governments should also look at the possibility of vaccinating older kids quickly.Even as cases of Coronavirus have largely declined in most parts of the country and vaccination footprint is on the rise, the…

Agrawal further said that a good part about the vaccine was their ability to reduce the severity of the infection by several notches among the patients.A recent study has shown what was long feared about the Delta variant of Coronavirus,…

A section of health experts have also said that the rise in infections and resultant conditions among young patients is also on account of low vaccination coverage among them.Even as the threat of widespread transmission of Coronavirus has…

Dr Maurya further said that luckily he had not encountered patients who were infected for the second time with delta variant after recovering from the virus earlier.Even as the second wave of Covid-19 has subsided substantially in all parts…

Two doses of COVID vaccine offer better protection than the single dose (File Photo: Reuters) COVID-19 vaccines: The latest survey done by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) shows that two doses of COVID vaccine offer better…