Latest COVID-19 conundrum is when to get another shot

For most people, there is an upside to getting a COVID-19 booster. But because of human genetic differences, not everyone responds the same to the vaccines. | REUTERS

It feels intuitively right that a reformulated booster vaccine aimed at the omicron BA.5 variant would vastly improve our protection against it as well as any offspring that might threaten us in the fall. But intuition doesn’t always agree with scientific data. It’s not intuitive at all to think that waiting six months before getting

GDP growth at 22-year high of 8.7% despite sluggish Q4

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NEW DELHI: The Indian economy expanded at its fastest pace in nearly 22 years in 2021-22, but growth slowed to a four quarter-low in the three months to January-March due to the impact of the curbs imposed against the backdrop of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Data released by the National Statistical Office showed

India Covid cases up nearly 2x in a week | India News

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Covid-19 cases have begun inching up in at least 12 states, rising from three last week, even as the country reported nearly twice as many cases in the week ending Sunday as in the previous seven days. India reported more than 15,700 fresh cases in the week (April 18-24) as compared to 8,050 last week,

XE or not? Maharashtra reports ‘first case’, Centre disagrees | India News

Expert panel split, call on additional dose put off | India News

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government and the Centre appeared to be at loggerheads on Wednesday over the announcement of the first domestic case of Omicron-XE variant, the most transmissible Covid-19 strain to date. While the BMC claimed in Mumbai it had found the XE strain in the sample of a South African costume designer who tested

China scrambles to contain ‘stealth’ omicron as outbreak spreads through country — Radio Free Asia

Residents queue to undergo nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Yantai, in China's eastern Shandong province, March 14, 2022. Credit: AFP

Authorities in China locked down the majority of the northeastern province of Jilin on Monday in a scramble to consist of a highly transmissible version of COVID-19, deploying troops to the region to keep order and help in a mass testing and quarantine operation.The National Health Commission said it had verified 1,337 locally transferred cases

Community transmission of Omicron on, says Insacog | India News

Expert panel split, call on additional dose put off | India News

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