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Jerusalem, Sep 5 : Israel is planning to start preparations to administer a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine, ignoring the World Health Organisation’s call for a moratorium on boosters to help shift Covid vaccine supply to countries with low-ac…

Washington, Sep 5 : The US has detected about 2,000 cases of the new Mu variant of Covid, media reports said.Early this week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated Mu or “B.1.621” as a variant of interest (VOI) for its vaccine resistance.Fir…

Toronto, Sep 5 : In a bid to resist male harassment and unwanted mating attempts, female octopuses were observed throwing debris, finds an interesting study led by a team from Australia, Canada and the US.The study, published on the pre-print server …

London, Sep 5 : The UK’s vaccine advisory body has declined to grant approval for inoculating healthy children aged 12-15 years citing lack of sufficient evidence, and has also ceded authority on the decision to the country’s top medical officers, ac…

London, Sep 5 : Sugar feeding prior to having an infected blood meal could protect a mosquito’s ability to get infected and transmit arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya, according to a new study.The finding, published in the journal PLOS…

London, Sep 5 : The most recent common ancestor of sarbecoviruses — the family of coronaviruses to which SARS-CoV belongs — existed more than 21,000 years ago, nearly 30 times older than previous estimates, finds a study.The study, published in the…

London, Sep 5 : The most recent common ancestor of sarbecoviruses — the family of coronaviruses to which SARS-CoV belongs — existed more than 21,000 years ago, nearly 30 times older than previous estimates, finds a study.The study, published in the…

Washington, Sep 5 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 220 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.56 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.42 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Sunday …

Tehran, Sep 5 : Iran has registered 515 new deaths of Covid-19, raising the death toll in the country to 110,064, said the update by its Ministry of Health and Medical Education.The ministry on Saturday also reported 20,404 new Covid-19 cases in the …

London, Sep 5 : Another 37,578 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 6,941,611, according to official figures released on Saturday.The country also reported another 120 c…