Covaxin, India's home-grown COVID-19 vaccine, has been found to neutralise the 617 variant of the deadly virus, White House chief medical adviser and America's top pandemic expert Dr Anthony Fauci said here.

Covaxin found to neutralise the 617 variant of COVID-19: Dr Fauci

The number of new Covid-19 cases per week worldwide has nearly doubled over the past two months, approaching the highest infection rate seen so far during the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Global coronavirus infections approaching highest rate seen so far, says WHO

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 139.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.99 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

Global COVID-19 caseload tops 139.6 million

South Africa has voluntarily suspended the rollout of Johnson & Johnson vaccine following the announcement made by the Food and Drug Administration to temporarily suspend the J&J vaccine in the US after reports of six females developing blood clots with low platelets there .

South Africa suspends Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine amid clot concerns

To federal health officials, asking states Tuesday to suspend use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine until they can investigate six extremely rare but troubling cases of blood clots was an obvious and perhaps unavoidable move.

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Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday began a probe into President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the country. On Tuesday, Senate leader Rodrigo Pacheco claimed that a congressional enquiry into Bolsonaro administration’s response to the pandemic would also probe how resources were distributed among states.

Brazil's Senate begins probe into government's pandemic response amid record dip in Bolsonaro's approval ratings

Moderna Inc said on Tuesday that its COVID-19 vaccine still showed strong protection against the illness six months after people received their second shot, with efficacy of more than 90 percent against all cases of COVID-19 and more than 95 percent against severe COVID-19.

Moderna says protection from its COVID-19 vaccine still strong six months on

As the number of covid-19 cases is growing again across the world, it’s more important than ever to be safe and follow guidelines. It’s easy to get complacent – experts call it “disaster fatigue” – and we’re all guilty of it sometimes.

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India reported 115,736 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, setting a new daily record for the country witnessing another wave of infections. The total cases in the country have gone up to 12.

India reports over 100,000 fresh coronavirus cases for second time in a week

Coronavirus-related deaths crossed the 3 million mark worldwide on Tuesday, as the world deals with a resurgence of the virus. Currently, vaccination drives are on across the world to prevent more outbreaks, especially involving mutants.

Coronavirus global death toll surpasses 3 million amid resurgence of infections

A new study sheds light on how COVID-19 affects the neurological health of recovered patients. Turns out, one in three people who recover from COVID-19 suffer a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months later, the study published in The Lancet Psychiatry Journal on Wednesday said.

New study claims 1 in 3 COVID-19 survivors develop mental, neurological issues

Israel’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law which allows the government to share the identities of those not vaccinated against COVID-19. The measure passed with 30 votes in favour and 13 against, and now gives local governments, the director general of the education ministry, and many officials in the welfare ministry to receive the names, phone numbers, and addresses of those who have not received the vaccine.

Israel adopts law allowing identities of unvaccinated to be shared

The invention of COVID-19 vaccines will be remembered as a milestone in the history of medicine, creating in a matter of months what had before taken up to a decade.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President Joe Biden discussed an open& free Indo-pacific, COVID-19 pandemic, climate change on a phone call. This was the first conversation between the two leaders after Biden's inauguration,

Modi & Biden discuss Indo-pacific, Quad & COVID on a phone call

Royal Dutch Shell's profit last year dropped to its lowest in at least two decades as the coronavirus pandemic hit energy demand worldwide though the company's retail network and trading business helped cushion the blow.

Shell's profit slumps in 2020 as the pandemic bites

Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao, 42, an internist in suburban Chicago, can’t pinpoint the exact moment when she decided to hang up her stethoscope for the last time. There were the chaos and confusion of the spring, when a nationwide shortage of N95 masks forced her to examine patients with a surgical mask, the fears she might take the coronavirus home to her family and the exasperating public disregard for mask-wearing and social distancing that was amplified by the White House.

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Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac, a German biotech firm recently struck a deal to begin the development of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines. The drug giants have struck a $182 million deal to start development of vaccines which will target multiple variants of the virus in one product.

Work on next gen coronavirus vaccines with focus on mutations underway

Britain's opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said on Tuesday (January 26) the UK government has been too slow to act to curb the spread of the coronavirus from the onset of the pandemic.

UK opposition: government 'too slow' as COVID-19 deaths top 100,000

Start your day with WION's daily news brief: From US National Guard members getting COVID-19 after Biden inauguration, to China's Wuhan celebrating its anniversary, here are the biggest stories of the morning.

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Japan on Monday detected the new UK variant of coronavirus among three people. The Health Ministry reported that none of them had any travel history to the UK. The variant in question is considered more infectious, if not more fatal, and is now spreading across different parts of the world.

Japan finds UK coronavirus strain among three people with no travel history

Scientists have demonstrated that a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which could potentially be stored at room temperature, can produce immunity against the novel coronavirus in mice.

Single dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate generates immunity in mice: Study

Mainland China witnessed its largest daily increase in the number of coronavirus cases in five months on Monday, the country's health authority reported. New infections in the Hebei province around Beijing have pushed the numbers up.

China inducts highest daily coronavirus cases since July

In the spring, as thousands of people were sickened by the coronavirus, the bodies began to pile up in one of the country’s densest urban centers: New York City.

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The United States government may cut the dose of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine in half for some in a bid to inoculate more people and to speed up vaccinations. On Sunday, Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, the US government's programme for the emergency rollout of vaccines announced plans to halve the dose of Moderna's vaccines.

US may halve Moderna's vaccine doses to inoculate more people