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COVID-19 Wave in the Europe: Current Situation and Projections for this Winter in UK, Germany, USA and India

Europe is reeling with an unusually high number of COVID 19 cases for the past few weeks and this can be attributed to the...

COVID-19 Situation across Europe is Very Serious

COVID-19 situation across Europe and central Asia is very serious. According to WHO, Europe could face over 2 million COVID-19 deaths by March 2022. Wearing...

“Pan-coronavirus” vaccines: RNA Polymerase Emerges as a Vaccine Target

Resistance to COVID-19 infection has been observed in health care workers and has been attributed to the presence of memory T cells that target...

Could Merck’s Molnupiravir and Pfizer’s Paxlovid, the Two New Anti-Viral Drugs Against COVID-19 Hasten the End of the Pandemic?

Molnupiravir, the world’s first oral drug (approved by MHRA, UK) against COVID-19 along with upcoming drugs such as Paxlovid and sustained vaccination drive has raised hopes...

LZTFL1: High Risk COVID-19 Gene Common to South Asians Identified

LZTFL1 expression causes high levels of TMPRSS2, by inhibiting EMT (epithelial mesenchymal transition), a developmental response involved in wound healing and recovery from disease. In a...

Fluvoxamine: Anti-depressant can Prevent Hospitalisation and COVID death

Fluvoxamine is an inexpensive anti-depressant commonly used in mental healthcare. Evidence from the recently concluded clinical trial suggest that it can be repurposed to treat...

MM3122: A lead Candidate for Novel Antiviral drug against COVID-19

TMPRSS2 is an important drug target to develop anti-viral drugs against COVID-19. MM3122 is a lead candidate that has shown promising result in vitro and in...

Variants of Coronavirus: What We Know So Far

Coronaviruses are RNA viruses belonging to coronaviridae family. These viruses display remarkably high rates of errors during replication due to lack of proofreading nuclease activity of their polymerases....

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