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New York, Aug 12 : Risk of Covid-19 may shift from older adults to younger children as the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes endemic, according to new research.Once endemic in the global population, Covid-19 may behave like other common cold coronaviruses, af…

Paris, Aug 12 : France will stop offering free coronavirus tests by mid-October, in a move to boost vaccination and avoid drastic measures to halt the spread of more infectious variants, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal announced.PCR (polymerase…

San Francisco, Aug 12 : Facebook has banned hundreds of accounts which shared links with Russian disinformation network that claimed Covid-19 vaccines developed by drugmakers Pfizer and AstraZeneca can turn people into chimpanzees.The network origina…

Madrid, Aug 12 : The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has authorised the beginning of the first round of clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine developed in the country.The PHH-1V vaccine against Covid-19 is developed by HIPRA…

Washington, Aug 12 : The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published ensemble forecasts indicating the country’s Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths are likely to increase over the next four weeks.The ensemble forecasts release…

New York, Aug 12 : Researchers have found an important clue to a rare but serious after-effect of Covid-19 among those broadly below 12, known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children or MIS-C.MIS-C is characterised by fever, pain, and inflam…

Washington, Aug 12 : The number of countries, areas or territories reporting various variants of Covid-19 has continued to increase after the global infection tally surpassed the 200 million mark last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.In…

Addis Ababa, Aug 12 : Ethiopia has registered 873 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 286,286 as of Wednesday evening, the country’s health ministry said.Meanwhile, 10 new virus-related deaths and 74 more recoverie…

Washington, Aug 12 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 202.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.32 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.52 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Thur…

Wellington, Aug 12 : The New Zealand government unveiled on Thursday a framework for re-opening borders next year and moving to an individualized risk-based model for quarantine-free travel, while using the second half of 2021 to vaccinate as many Ne…