According to WHO, combining casirivimab and imdevimab may reduce the risk of hospitalization and duration of symptoms in unvaccinated, older, or immunosuppressed patients.
Antibody tests indicate past exposure or immune response to vaccine. They, however, cannot detect neutralising antibodies which protect against future infections.
Several institutes and experts advocate see this as an efficacy trial that could help boost confidence in vaccines, especially Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin that is in phase-3 trials.
Until now, most tests could tell only whether antibodies are present. The newer ones measure the quantity of proteins raised by the immune system to disable viral invaders.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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