Covaxin gets WHO approval for emergency use
JNS: World Health Organisation (WHO) granted approval to India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine– Covaxin– for emergency use listing (EUL) for COVID-19 on Wednesday. The Technical Advisory Group of WHO, which met today, has recommended that Covaxin be…
COVID-19 may be becoming Endemic in India
JNS: COVID-19 prevalence appears to have reached an endemic stage in India, said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation (WHO). COVID-19 is expected to assume the form of an endemic by the end of 2022, said Dr. Swaminathan in…
“Dangerous period” with delta variant: WHO
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the Delta variant of COVID-19 will be highly transmissible strain in the coming months; will become the dominant variant of the coronavirus globally. The Delta variant of COVID-19 is now present in…
‘Black fungus’ developing ‘hypoxia’— a silent killer
Ashis Sinha I JNS: While the country is battling the deadly COVID-19 outbreak, new variants of the mutant Sars-Cov2 virus (B.1.617) were discovered during an investigation at Odisha’s Regional Genome Sequencing Laboratory, which experts believe…
COVID-19 continues to disrupt essential health services in 90% of countries: WHO
Geneva: Over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, substantial disruptions persist, with about 90% of countries still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services, marking no substantial global change since the first survey conducted in…
WHO ने जॉनसन एंड जॉनसन की कोरोना वैक्सीन को इमरजेंसी इस्तेमाल के लिए दी मंजूरी
जेनेवा। विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) ने अमेरिकी दवा कंपनी जॉनसन एंड जॉनसन की कोरोना वैक्सीन के इमरजेंसी इस्तेमाल को मंजूरी दे दी है। डब्ल्यूएचओ प्रमुख टेड्रोस एडेहनम ग्रेब्रेयेसस ने कहा, जॉनसन एंड जॉनसन की कोविड-19 वैक्सीन के मंजूरी मिलने से हम…
WHO give clean chit to Wuhan Lab. on Coronavirus leak
JNS: The coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, said a World Health Organization (WHO) expert on Tuesday. Around thirteen scientists from a 15-member international team (from…