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COVID-19 in 2025  

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic spanning over three years claimed millions of lives worldwide and caused immense misery to the humanity. Rapid developments of vaccines...

CoViNet: A New Network of Global Laboratories for Coronaviruses 

A new global network of laboratories for coronaviruses, CoViNet, has been launched by WHO. The aim behind this initiative is to bring together surveillance...

COVID-19: Severe lung infection affects heart through “cardiac macrophage shift” 

It is known that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and Long COVID but what was not known is whether the damage...

Nuvaxovid & Covovax: the 10th & 9th COVID-19 vaccines in WHO’s Emergency Use List

Following assessment and approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), WHO has issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for Nuvaxovid on 21 December 2021. Earlier on...

Why Omicron Should be Taken Seriously

Evidences so far suggest that Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has high transmission rate but fortunately is low on virulence and is not usually leading...

WHO’s Interim recommendations for the use of One-dose Janssen Ad26.COV2.S (COVID-19) vaccine

Single dose of the vaccine can increase vaccine coverage rapidly which is an imperative in many countries where level of vaccine uptake is not optimal.   WHO...

Sotrovimab Approval in the UK: A Monoclonal Antibody Effective Against Omicron, may work for Future Variants as well

Sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody already approved for mild to moderate COVID-19 in several countries gets approval by MHRA in the UK. This antibody was intelligently designed...

Future of Adenovirus based COVID-19 Vaccines (such as Oxford AstraZeneca) in light of recent finding about Cause of rare side effects of Blood clot

Three adenoviruses used as vectors to produce COVID-19 vaccines, bind to platelet factor 4 (PF4), a protein implicated in the pathogenesis of clotting disorders.  Adenovirus...

How Omicron Variant of COVID-19 may have Arisen?

One of unusual and most intriguing feature of heavily mutated Omicron variant is that it acquired all the mutations in a single burst in a...

Omicron variant: UK and USA Authorities recommend Booster doses of COVID Vaccines for all aged 18 and above

In order to raise levels of protection across the population against the Omicron variant, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)1 of UK has...

Soberana 02 and Abdala: World’s first Protein conjugate Vaccines against COVID-19

The technology used by Cuba to develop protein-based vaccines against COVID-19 can lead to development of vaccines against new mutated strains in a relatively...

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