Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Alexander Roth administers the COVID-19 vaccine booster to Aircrew Survival Equipmentman Airman Kiana Briley aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), in the Philippine Sea, on Dec. 7, 2022. US Navy Photo
The Pentagon has offered limited guidance in the three weeks since Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin officially rescinded the COVID-19 vaccination mandate, leaving service members with questions about their statuses.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said that COVID-19 continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern, its highest form of alert, reports the Straits Times.
Public health emergency of international concernThe pandemic was likely in a “transition point” that continues to need careful management to “mitigate the potential negative consequences”, the agency added in a statement.
It is three years since the WHO first declared that COVID...
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The rise of COVID-19 infections in China is posing new challenges for crew changes as some countries reintroduce restrictions and test requirements for seafarers arriving from certain Asian nations, the…
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According to Bharat Biotech’s chairman and MD Krishna Ella, the intranasal COVID-19 vaccine would be made available on January 26, as reported by News On Air.
One of a kind“Our nasal vaccine will be officially launched on January 26, on Republic Day,” conveyed MD Krishna Ella at the ‘Face-to-Face with New Frontiers in Science’ segment of the IISF, which was held at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT).
In a conversation with the kids at the...
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China’s population has fallen for the first time in six decades, official statistics revealed earlier this week – but this trend may not spell doom for the country in the short term, reports BBC.
Beyond 2030, however, demographic stress will be a drag on growth in what is currently the world’s second-largest economy.
China is getting old before it gets richThe number of Chinese people fell by 850,000 from the previous year to 1.4118 billion, the statistics showed. Its...
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China says 60,000 people have died of Covid since early December, according to a news article published in the CNN.
60,000 people have died of Covid in ChinaClose to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight “zero-Covid” policy in early December, a medical official from the National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday.
Jiao Yahui, head of the NHC’s medical affairs department, said China...
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China says 60,000 people have died of Covid since early December, according to a news article published in the CNN.
60,000 people have died of Covid in ChinaClose to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight “zero-Covid” policy in early December, a medical official from the National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday.
Jiao Yahui, head of the NHC’s medical affairs department, said China...
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A new, rapidly spreading variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, means a rise in new infections could be around the corner. And while it likely won’t skirt immunity completely, the variant could dodge some of our defenses thanks to a mutational boost, reports Scientific American.
The most contagious strainXBB.1.5—unofficially nicknamed “Kraken” by some scientists online—is an Omicron subvariant that has caught the attention of virologists in...
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Seaman Apprentice Johnnese Poomaihealani, from Waianae, Hawaii, receives a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot during a shot event in the foc’sle aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on Jan. 3, 2022. US Navy Photo
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin officially rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine mandate Tuesday evening in a memo, stopping any more military separations due to refusal to get the shot series.
Congress, through the National Defense Authorization Act 2023, ordered the Department of Defense to...
The surge in Covid-19 cases in...
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