Stories about health and hygiene.
Published by Reuters WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealanders on Wednesday visited beaches and queued for takeaway food as tough lockdown measures enforced to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus were eased for most of the country. About 1.7 million people in the largest city Auckland still remain in strict level […]
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Published by Reuters By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) -From Seoul to Paris, and Moscow to Bangkok, concerned citizens are lining up for vaccine shots as COVID-19 case numbers swell. That may ease pressure on stretched hospitals around the world, but with it comes a hangover – a severe shortage of blood donors. A number of
In COVID-19 hangover, as more around world get vaccinated, fewer give blood Read More »
Published by Reuters By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) – A British public health study has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months. It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the
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Published by NJ.com The Lambda variant of the coronavirus is a strain of the initial COVID-19 virus that was initially discovered in Peru in Aug. 2020, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). On June 14, 2021, the agency named the strain after the Greek letter “Lambda” and declared it a “variant of interest,” meaning
Lambda variant of COVID: What are the symptoms of this ‘strain of interest’? Read More »
Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer With more contagious variants of the COVID-19 virus spreading just as people are starting to feel comfortable reentering society, talk about the benefit of vaccine boosters is amping up. Pfizer is seeking approval for a third dose of its vaccine, given as a booster, and some countries, including Britain and
Do I need a COVID-19 vaccine booster to protect from delta and other variants? Read More »
Newscraving Desk: Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir reported 161 new covid-19 cases positive while two persons died due to the disease in the last 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. They said that 38 of the fresh cases were reported from Jammu division and 123 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall tally to 319152. Regarding
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Published by Reuters By Chen Lin and Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A Genting Cruise Lines ship on a “cruise to nowhere” has returned to Singapore after a confirmed case of COVID-19 in a passenger, and the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew on board were confined to their cabins through most of Wednesday. The 40-year-old
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