The PHE also found that protection against COVID-19 was seen from about 14 days after vaccination, with similar levels of protection regardless of age of cases or contacts.
With necessary precautions and lifestyle modification, people can decrease the risk of diabetic eye ailments.
“So, despite the real difficulty that we’re seeing in India, vaccination could be a very, very important antidote against this,” Fauci added.
The findings showed that people with Type-2 diabetes and cancer may also be at increased risk to Covid because they tend to exhibit the same type of inflammation.
While these instances are rare, doctors should be aware of this potential complication, said the team at Mount Sinai Hospital in the US.
The CDC “recommends that pregnant people receive the Covid-19 vaccine”, NPR.org reported CDC Director Rochelle Walensky as saying.
The study assessed 10,427 adult individuals working in more than 40 CSIR laboratories and centers in urban and semi-urban settings spread across and their family members. These people voluntarily participated in the study.
A single-dose subcutaneous regimen of the antiviral Virafin will make the treatment more convenient for the patients. When administered early on during COVID-19, Virafin will help patients recover faster and avoid much of the complications, the company said.
The approved product is therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug product (RLD) Sinequan Capsules of Pfizer Inc.
The ministry, in a document, said proning is the process of turning a patient with precise, safe motions, from their back onto their abdomen so that the individual is lying face down.
The vaccine was close to 77 per cent effective against severe/critical COVID-19 at 14 days after administration, and 85 per cent after 28 days.
The study led by Nagoya University researchers and colleagues in Japan, was published in the journal Cancer Research
The vaccine maker noted that the second interim data of the Phase III study also showed that chances of hospitalisation due to the infectious disease were reduced by 100 per cent after taking the Covaxin jab.
Initial observations of lung CT scans from patients suffering from COVID-19 lung disease led to a collaboration between medical and dental researchers on the potential entry route into the bloodstream.
The vaccine developed by researchers, including those from the University of Virginia (UVA) in the US, prevented pigs from being becoming ill with a pig model coronavirus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV).
If the liver is damaged, it must be treated on time; a delay can cause Liver Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer.
In the study, published in the journal Nature Communications, the scientists found MK-4482 treatment effective when provided up to 12 hours before or 12 hours after infecting the hamsters with SARS-CoV-2.
The database has revealed that the double mutation virus, which has been found in several countries, was the most common in the samples sequenced in the 60 days prior to April 2 at 24 per cent.
Americans broadly trusted the other two vaccines approved in the US, with 59 per cent of respondents saying they thought the Moderna vaccine was safe and 58 per cent trusting the safety of the Pfizer vaccine.
Bourla told CNBC News on Thursday that it is possible people will need to get vaccinated against the coronavirus annually, reports Xinhua news agency.
While Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is considering the second wave as “dangerous”, doctors call it “very dangerous”.
The study led by researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK counted the number of CVT cases diagnosed in the two weeks following diagnosis of COVID-19, or after the first dose of a vaccine.
Since 1989, World Hemophilia Day is the day the whole bleeding disorders community comes together to celebrate the continuous advances in treatment while raising awareness and bringing understanding and attention to the issues related to proper care to the wider public.
Researchers, including those from the University of California San Diego, found that COVID-19 patients in the US who were consistently inactive during the two years preceding the pandemic were more likely to be admitted to hospital.
Researchers from the Ohio State University in the US, worked with the crews responsible for cleaning the rooms at the university where students who tested positive for Covid-19 were isolated.