The CDC said the new strain "warrants universal and increased compliance with mitigation strategies, including distancing and masking". "A higher rate of transmission will lead to more cases, increasing the number of persons overall who need clinical care, exacerbating the burden on an already strained health care system, and resulting in more deaths", the CDC report states. [Full Article...]
Despite the fatalities, the country's medicines agency says it is not anxious. "This includes the frequency of some reactions, the severity, and any previously unknown reactions". "Overall, there were no safety signals of concern identified in our clinical trials, including no signal of serious allergic reactions associated with the vaccine", the pharmaceutical company said in a statement. [Full Article...]
Delhi's south and southwest districts accounted for 11 cases each while West Delhi and East Delhi reported six cases of adverse events each followed by the southeast district and New Delhi with five such cases each. "Everyone has a part to play in this national effort - to protect our NHS, our loved ones and other people's loved ones too". His plea came as another 1,295 deaths in the United Ki... [Full Article...]
The 191,181 beneficiaries reported by the ministry on Saturday evening made up about 57 per cent of the target of about 335,000. "This decrease in arriving vaccines implies a revision of the objectives presented in recent days", the province's Health Department said in a statement on Friday. [Full Article...]
The 22 new deaths bring New Mexico's total to 2,932. The statewide cumulative totals are now at 5,927 and 446,380 respectively. The trend in the 14-day moving average number of hospitalized patients per day has increased by almost 4,800 since the end of September. [Full Article...]
Given how fast the virus is spreading due to more infectious variants, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned the worst could be ahead. "It could even be tougher given the transmission dynamics and some of the issues that we are seeing", Mike Ryan, the WHO's top emergencies official, said during a Wednesday event. [Full Article...]
It is pertinent to mention here, the immunization drive will be conducted at 160 session sites covering all 30 districts in the state and 100 health workers will be vaccinated at each session site on the first day. Jay Butler, CDC's deputy director for infectious diseases, told a news outlet they are concerned with the presence of the new variant in the country. [Full Article...]
Since the novel coronavirus is so new, it was unknown how long after recovering from the virus the body would remain immune, and whether that might affect one getting the vaccine. But early insight from the next stage of the study shows that some people with existing immunity carry high levels of virus and could transmit the virus to others. [Full Article...]