London, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has claimed that early laboratory tests show that its antibody drug against Covid-19 is effective against the new super mutant Omicron variant. GSK developed Sotrovimab, with US partner…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) A total of 10 persons suspected to be infected with Omicron Covid variant have been admitted to Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital (LNJP). Talking to IANS, Dr Suresh Kumar,…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that Punjab had reported four deaths due to shortage of Oxygen during the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. Replying…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Global healthcare company Abbot has announced that it has conducted an assessment of the Omicron variant and it is confident that the rapid and PCR tests can detect the virus….
Bengaluru, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) A high alert has been sounded in Karnataka as the health department awaits the test reports of five people who came in contact with an Omicron-infected doctor from Bengaluru. According to…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The new super mutant Omicron variant of Covid-19 can increase risk of reinfection by three times as compared to other variants of concern such as Beta and Delta, according to…
Bengaluru, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will chair a high-level committee meeting with experts and senior officers on Friday afternoon in the wake of detection of the country’s first case of Omicron…
Montreal, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Due to the uncertainties posed by the emergence of the Omicron variant, and the resulting travel measures and restrictions imposed in certain countries, the resumed sessions of the Convention on Biological…
New York, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a consensus decision aimed at protecting the world from future infectious diseases crises, the decision to call a special session of the World Health Assembly for pandemic preparedness has…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) India on Friday reported 9,216 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, below the 10,000-mark for the seventh day in the row. A total of 391 deaths were reported…
Chennai, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two passengers, who arrived at the Tiruchirapalli airport and Chennai airport from Singapore and the UK have tested Covid positive. The swab samples of these two passengers were sent for genome…
Chennai, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu health department has readied itself for any threat in view of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron. The health department has directed the Medical colleges to set apart 150…
San Francisco, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the Omicron variant threat looms, Google is reconsidering its plans to ask full-time employees to return to offices by January 10. According to an email from Google VP Chris…
Brasilia, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Brazil has vaccinated 90 per cent of its target population of 177 million people with at least one dose of a vaccine against Covid-19, the Ministry of Health has said. In…
Seoul 3, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases fell below 5,000 on Friday, but the number of critically ill patients hit yet another record high as the country prepares to limit private gatherings…
Bengaluru, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) With Karnataka reporting the country’s first cases of Omicron variant, state Health and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Thursday said that preparations are made at airports for faster Covid…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) A professor for South Africas National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says the susceptibility of the population is greater because previous Covid infection used to protect against Delta — but…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid concerns of vaccine escape by the new super mutant Omicron variant of the coronavirus, WHO’s Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that existing vaccines will likely prevent…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The detection of two cases of Omicron, the latest variant of Covid-19, in Karnataka was not unexpected in view of the interconnected world that people live in, Poonam Khetrapal Singh,…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) More than one lakh SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been sequenced till November 2021, the Parliament was told on Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on…