COVID-19 News Updates

About 80 per cent of salicylanilide 11 passed into the bloodstream, compared to about 10 per cent of the antiparasitic drug niclosamide, which has recently entered clinical trials as a COVID-19 treatment.

The team conducted a series of tests to show that young adults recovering from SARS-CoV-2 have elevated resting sympathetic activity, but similar heart rate and blood pressure, compared with control subjects.

The recent BCG vaccination was not associated with hyperinflammation but was, in turn, associated with down-modulated basal inflammatory status, which might play a protective role in elderly population against inflammatory diseases.

Ahead of a possible third wave of the Covid pandemic, the Odisha government started conducting on-line training sessions for paediatricians, medical officers and staff nurses

Tent house and catering bodies staged a protest at the Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar demanding relaxation of restrictions imposed on social events

A decrease of 4,634 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 35,762,751 and 616,827, respectively, according to the CSSE.

The team evaluated the SARS-CoV-2 spike immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibody levels after 1 and 2 BNT162b2 doses in previously infected individuals compared with those without previous infection.

As of 7 August, Bhubaneswar has 2806 active Covid-19 cases. While the State capital city has reported a total of 1,01,797 cases since the onset of the pandemic, 98,074 patients have recuperated from the infection. The virus has claimed 896 lives in the city, says the report of the State Health Department.

Although laboratory evidence suggests that antibody responses following Covid-19 vaccination provide better neutralisation of some circulating variants than does natural infection, few real-world epidemiologic studies exist to support the benefit of vaccination for previously infected persons.

The folk artists, who have lost their livelihood due to the pandemic, will get an opportunity to earn some money with this awareness drive.

These findings have an important implication for the COVID-19 vaccination program wherein heterologous immunisation will pave the way for induction of improved and better protection against the variant strains of SARS-CoV-2.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,10, 99,771, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths.

Fenofibrate, which is approved for use by most countries in the world including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), is an oral drug currently used to treat conditions such as high levels of cholesterol and lipids (fatty substances) in the blood.