by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
“It might be a mild disease. It is possibly being observed in some countries such as South Africa that the gap between the infection and the manifestation of the disease is a little longer. And when it is longer than the Delta virus, it is likely to be...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 4, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Cases with the Omicron variant have already been detected in Karnataka and Gujarat Mumbai: A 33-year-old man from Thane district near Mumbai who had arrived at the Delhi airport from South Africa via Dubai before flying to the Maharashtra capital has tested positive...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The World Health Organization has warned it could take weeks to determine how infectious the variant is, whether it causes more severe illness and how effective treatments and vaccines are against it. “We’re going to get the answers that everybody out...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria The future course of action will depend on what more data on its transmissibility, virulence and immunoescpae shows, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria said. The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia INSACOG is closely tracking the new variant...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic, Policy, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Omicron’s mutations are likely to render certain COVID-19 treatments – including some manufactured antibodies – ineffective, said Dr. David Ho, professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University. Experimental antiviral pills – such...