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WHO issues recommendations for mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines

-- 2021-12-17 09:53:38

The World Health Organization issued interim recommendations on Thursday for mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines from different manufacturers for both the second dose and booster shots. Depending o...

AstraZeneca antibody cocktail works against omicron, US study says

-- 2021-12-16 20:58:17

AstraZeneca on Thursday said a lab-study of its COVID-19 antibody cocktail, Evusheld, found that the treatment retained neutralising activity against the omicron coronavirus variant, showing promise f...

EU regulator okays COVID-19 treatments from GSK-Vir and Sobi

-- 2021-12-16 20:48:22

The European Union's drug regulator on Thursday approved a COVID-19 treatment from British-US duo GSK and Vir Biotechnology and another from Swedish drugmaker Sobi, as the bloc builds its defences aga...

Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs, suggest new data

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-16 11:40:43

Major differences in how efficiently Omicron and other variants of the coronavirus multiply may help predict Omicron's effects, researchers said on Wednesday. Compared to the earlier Delta variant, O...

Pfizer set to oust AstraZeneca as top supplier of COVID-19 shots to poor nations

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-15 15:44:27

Pfizer and BioNtech are set to displace AstraZeneca as the main suppliers of COVID-19 vaccines to the global COVAX programme at the start of 2022, a shift that shows the increasing importance of their...

Vaccine effectiveness against severe Covid drops slightly, says WHO

-- 2021-12-15 12:58:24

Covid-19 vaccines appear to have become slightly less effective in preventing severe disease and death but do provide "significant protection", the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Th...

Pfizer says its Covid-19 pill 89pc effective in preventing hospitalisations

-- 2021-12-14 19:57:22

Pfizer Inc on Tuesday said the final analysis of its antiviral COVID-19 pill still showed around 89 per cent efficacy in preventing hospitalisations and deaths in high-risk patients, and recent lab da...

Pfizer vaccine protects against hospitalisation during omicron wave, says study

-- 2021-12-14 18:33:09

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of...

New global studies show health threats throughout the plastics supply chain

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-14 17:15:48

Health and environmental groups call for international action to control plastic chemicals and scaling down on the production of plastics to curb the growing crisis of the element’s pollution....

Omicron: Pfizer gives 70pc protection against hospitalisation in South Africa

-- 2021-12-14 16:44:27

Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appear to have given 70 per cent protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of...

Dhaka’s sewage surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 offers an insight into community transmission

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-14 13:19:22

Dhaka’s sewage surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 offers an insight into community transmission and forecasting, promising early detection of the virus to help strengthen its containment measures, and...

WHO says Omicron poses 'very high' global risk

-- 2021-12-14 12:59:31

The Omicron coronavirus variant, reported in more than 60 countries, poses a "very high" global risk, with some evidence that it evades vaccine protection but clinical data on its severity is limited,...

Omicron poses a ‘very high’ global risk, WHO says

-- 2021-12-13 17:47:22

The omicron coronavirus variant, reported in more than 60 countries, poses a ‘very high’ global risk, with some evidence that it evades vaccine protection but clinical data on its severity...

Lack of medicine, human resources hinder adolescent health services: Study

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-12 18:39:35

Despite the service environment of the country’s adolescent health centres has seen an improvement, the lack of medicine and human resources have remained as challenges, said a new study. ...

Pfizer Covid booster protects against Omicron variant, Israeli study finds

-- 2021-12-12 10:38:14

Israeli researchers said on Saturday they found that a three-shot course of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine provided significant protection against the new Omicron variant. The findings were sim...

Bangladesh government taking steps to start booster doses

FE REPORT 2021-12-10 09:20:04

The government is likely to start administering booster doses of coronavirus vaccine to the people aged 60 years and above, as its preparations are underway. "The eligible booster dose receivers are...

WHO recommends all with health issues to take booster shots

-- 2021-12-09 19:08:20

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended on Thursday that people who are immunocompromised or received an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine should receive a booster dose to protect against waning im...

COVID booster offers protection against omicron, Pfizer says

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-08 19:08:08

Pfizer said Wednesday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine may protect against the new omicron variant even though the initial two doses appear significantly less effective. Pfizer and its par...

Studies suggest Pfizer shot may protect only partially against Omicron

-- 2021-12-08 17:31:15

The Omicron variant can partially evade protection from two doses of Pfizer and partner BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, the research head of a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute in South...

GSK says its COVID-19 therapy effective against all omicron mutations

-- 2021-12-07 17:18:23

British drugmaker GSK said on Tuesday its antibody-based COVID-19 therapy with US partner Vir Biotechnology is effective against all mutations of the new omicron coronavirus variant, citing new data f...

Covid-19 disruptions caused sharp spike in malaria deaths in 2020, says WHO

-- 2021-12-07 10:16:00

Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization sa...

Next pandemic could be more lethal than Covid, Sarah Gilbert says

-- 2021-12-06 14:19:15

Future pandemics could be more lethal than the current Covid crisis, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has warned. Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, delivering the 44th Richard...

Omicron may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus, researchers say

-- 2021-12-04 11:15:04

The Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus - possibly one that causes the common...

Vaccinations, prior infections to blunt impact of omicron variant: India health ministry

-- 2021-12-04 10:57:51

India expects the omicron variant of coronavirus to cause less severe disease, the health ministry said on Friday, thanks to vaccinations and high prior exposure to the delta variant that infected nea...

WHO chief scientist says omicron 'quite infectious'

-- 2021-12-03 20:42:25

The World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told Reuters on Friday that while the new coronavirus variant omicron appeared to be very transmissible, the right response was...

Roche develops new research test kits for omicron variant

-- 2021-12-03 15:33:14

Roche's newly acquired subsidiary TIB Molbiol has developed three new test kits to help researchers detect mutations in the new omicron variant of coronavirus, Roche said on Friday. Governments aroun...

GSK says tests indicate antibody drug works against omicron

-- 2021-12-02 19:56:02

Laboratory analysis of the antibody-based COVID-19 therapy GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is developing with US partner Vir has indicated the drug is effective against the new omicron variant, the British drug...

Psychotherapy interventions can improve women's financial empowerment, study finds

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-02 16:16:32

Psychotherapy interventions can improve women's financial empowerment and increase both time- and money-intensive parental investment while it can also reduce maternal depression among women, accordin...

Square's noble move to give cancer survivors spiritual comfort

FE REPORT 2021-12-02 11:16:10

Square Hospitals Limited on Wednesday organised a programme for cancer survivors and caregivers to provide them a spiritual relief to get back into normal lifestyle. The privately-owned healthcar...

WHO agrees to launch talks on pact to tackle future pandemics

-- 2021-12-01 18:50:03

The World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed on Wednesday to launch negotiations on an international pact to prevent and control future pandemics at a time when the world is gearing up to battle the new...