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Wellington, Aug 9 : Eleven of the 21 crew onboard container ship Rio De La Plata, currently at sea off the coast of New Zealand’s Tauranga, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday.The Ministry of Health said in a statement that it is likely that at le…

Vientiane, Aug 9 : The fifth batch of China-donated Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine carried by the Chinese YTO Airlines cargo plane arrived at the Lao capital Vientiane late on Saturday.Lao Health Minister Bounfeng Phoummalaysith and Economic and Commerci…

New York, Aug 8 : Individuals with a prior Covid-19 infection may be sufficiently protected from re-infection after a single dose of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, freeing up availability of millions of additional doses, suggests a study.”We observed highe…

London, Aug 8 : The antibodies produced as a result of infection by one variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, are able to bind to and stop other variants from entering the host cells in order to replicate, researchers have found.Understa…

Washington, Aug 8 : People who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 are two times more likely to be re-infected with the deadly infectious disease, according to a study by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”Being unvaccinated was …

Ramallah, Aug 8 : A senior Palestinian official announced that 95 per cent of the recent Covid-19 infections in the West Bank are of the Delta variant.Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila told reporters here that the Delta variant is spreading in…

Beijing, Aug 8 : The Chinese mainland has reported 81 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Sunday.Of the locally transmitted cases, 38 were reported in Jiangsu, 24 in Henan, seven in Yunnan, six each in Hubei…

London, Aug 8 : UK National Health Service is soon set to roll out immune-boosting drugs to protect 10 per cent patients who fail to respond to the Covid vaccine, the media reported.While Covid jabs have proved effective in preventing severe illness,…

Addis Ababa, Aug 8 : The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Africa has so far reached 6,964,194 since the onset of the pandemic early last year, according to authorities.In its latest update on Saturday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and …

Tokyo, Aug 8 : Amid a continued resurgence, the single-day Covid-19 cases in Japan hit a new record, while the number of people hospitalised in Tokyo also reached a fresh high, according to local media reports.on Saturday, the country registered 15,7…