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Coronavirus

India now has more than 4.3 crore total reported cases and the world's highest number of recoveries. Worldwide, there are over 43 crore cases, with US recording the highest caseload.

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WHO calls on China to provide data on Covid-19, says it’s a ‘moral and scientific imperative’

ANI -
Five years after the outbreak, WHO reiterated in a statement Monday that China should provide data and access to understand the virus’s origins.

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How controversial paper’s retraction has stirred up coronavirus ‘lab leak theory’ again

Sandhya Ramesh -
A paper on natural origins of coronavirus was retracted and published anew, bringing back speculation about a Wuhan 'lab leak' during experiments on samples from NY-based EcoHealth.

Chinese virologist who sequenced SARS-CoV-2 barred from own lab, later allowed ‘for time being’

Pia Krishnankutty -
Chinese authorities claimed lab was undergoing renovation, but Zhang Yongzhen said in online post later that he & his team had been allowed to return to lab for the ‘time being’.

India reports 1,272 new Covid cases in last 24 hours, active cases at 15,515

ANI -
The daily positivity rate is 1.02 per cent and the weekly positivity rate stands at 1.20 per cent, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

WHO questions China on ‘delay & transparency’ as Covid data from 2020 is uploaded in 2023, then deleted 

Mohana Basu -
WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus also says he is ‘confident that this year we will be able to say that Covid-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern’. 

AIIMS hacking a result of primitive data-security practices. Digital India citizens deserve reliable tech

ThePrint Team -
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You can holiday in Bhutan again, but there’s a development fee of Rs 1,200/day

Amogh Rohmetra -
This 'sustainable development fee' being levied by Bhutan is meant to 'mitigate negative impact of tourism on cultural landscape and natural environment' of country.

New ‘SARS-CoV-2-like virus’ found in Russian bats can infect humans, says US study

Mohana Basu -
Published in 'PLOS Pathogens', the study found the virus, 'Khosta-2', was resistant to available Covid vaccines, but also that it lacks the genes needed to develop into a disease.

Here’s why you caught that summer cold, again

Fidelma Fitzpatrick -
Heatwaves, humidity fluctuations and pandemic-induced lockdowns across countries could be the culprit.

Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech for infringing its Covid vaccine patent

ThePrint Team -
The company said the rival vaccine makers breached patents that covered its ‘foundational mRNA technology’.

CM Kejriwal urges Delhiites to get Covid precaution dose, says only 10% people have done so far

PTI -
The chief minister said that the district administration will help school authorities to set up camps inside school premises for vaccination of children.

For those above 18, health ministry reduces gap from 9 to 6 months for Covid precaution dose

ThePrint Team -
The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) took the decision in view of the “evolving scientific evidence and global practices”.

Covid during pregnancy doubles babies’ risk of delay in speech, motor skills, study finds

Carey Goldberg -
The study could not assess the impact of vaccination because it examined records from pregnancies between March and September of 2020, before Covid shots were available.

Covid lab leak theory needs more research to investigate possibility, say WHO advisers

Madison Muller -
While the lab theory remains in limbo, mounting evidence suggests that a seafood market in Wuhan where early cases appeared was not the source of the infection, the WHO report said.

Maharashtra records highest Covid cases in 4 months, Mumbai sees 42% jump in 24 hours

ThePrint Team -
On 28 May, for the first time in state, 4 patients of B.A.4 sub-lineage and 3 cases of B.A.5 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant were found.

How an airport nail salon chain became the frontline of US Covid testing systems

Riley Griffin -
Through a partnership with US CDC, XpresSpa launched a surveillance operation to hunt for new and emerging Covid variants among international travellers in close to 50 of its locations.
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