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Mumbai reported 295 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, the most in over three months, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). During the day, no pandemic-related deaths were reported in the metropolis, according to the report.
In this episode of The Moneycontrol Real Estate show, Moneycontrol's Vandana Ramnani talks to Vikaash Khdloya, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and COO, Embassy REIT about commercial leasing trends after three waves of COVID-19. He tells listeners that the company is starting to see rents inching up as people get back to work as the physical occupancy of commercial parks improve.
The FDA’s earlier decision, in April, to put on hold the trials was based on the US firm’s decision to voluntarily implement a temporary pause in dosing participants of the jab, following the World Health Organisation’s observations on Covaxin manufacturing plants in India.
The man, who lives in South Africa, had on May 1 tested positive for the coronavirus after he arrived to meet his parents.
Dr Faheem Younus says there is zero risk of monkeypox evolving into a Covid-like pandemic.
Justin Bieber's India show of the Justice World Tour will go on sale from June 4, priced from Rs 4,000 onwards on online booking and entertainment platform BookMyShow
The two Omicron sub-variant cases have been reported in two patients from Tamil Nadu and Telangana, respectively. Neither have a history of travel and both are fully vaccinated.
The seven-day event in Geneva is the first health assembly being held in-person since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic
The UN health agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the WHO’s annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution of the virus.” He also noted that almost 1 billion people in lower-income countries still haven’t been vaccinated.
The companies said the vaccine was safe and well-tolerated by the children, and they plan to soon ask global regulators to authorize the shot for the age group, children for whom no vaccine is currently approved in most of the world.
The UN agency estimated that there was the equivalent of 112 million fewer full-time jobs in the first quarter of 2022 compared with pre-COVID levels, and there was a growing but uncertain risk that the amount of hours worked would continue to decline over 2022.
"Healthcare professionals can now use Vaxzevria as a third dose booster in patients previously given a primary vaccine schedule of either Vaxzevria or an EU-approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccine."
Studies estimate that 10 percent to 30 percent of people report persistent or new medical issues months after their initial coronavirus infections — a constellation of symptoms known as long Covid
Unlike fully remote or in-person work arrangements, hybrid models have unfolded differently in every office
The WEF, which describes itself as an international organisation for public-private partnership, is hosting its annual meeting in Davos after a gap of more than two years.
The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.75 per cent, the health ministry said.
The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide inoculation drive have exceeded 192.12 crore
The ministry has announced that a two-month-long “Har Ghar Dastak 2.0” campaign will be launched in June to accelerate the pace of COVID-19 vaccination coverage and saturate all eligible beneficiaries.
A municipal official mistakenly wired Abu’s entire COVID-19 relief budget of $360,000 to a single recipient, who after promising to return the accidental payment, gambled it away instead
Pubs and bars in provinces classified as green and blue zones will be allowed to serve patrons until midnight, Deputy Health Minister Satit Pitutecha told reporters in Bangkok on Friday after a meeting of the nation’s virus task force chaired by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha.
A total of 47,761 precaution doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered to beneficiaries aged 18-59 years till 7 pm, taking the total number of such doses given in this age-group to 16,25,744 so far, according to the ministry’s data.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech currently make the only COVID-19 vaccine available for children of any age in the U.S. Those ages 5 to 11 receive a dose that’s one-third the amount given to everyone 12 and older.
"The vaccine meets WHO standards for protection against Covid-19 and... the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh risks," the UN health agency said in a statement.
In experiments using mice and blood samples from donors who were infected with Omicron, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the US found that the Omicron variant induces only a weak immune response.
India has traditionally seen peak demand late in the evening when people head back home but that has shifted to mid-afternoon when temperatures are hottest, government data shows, driven by record residential daytime use, a pick up in industrial work, and more use of irrigation pumps to tap higher solar supply.