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Crew Restrictions Returning Following End Of China’s Zero-Covid Policy

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  • Japan requires all travelers coming out of China within the past seven days to be tested on arrival.
  • Some companies are also no longer recommending their seafarers renew or boost “expired” vaccinations.
  • A recent spike in Covid-19 cases has also raised concerns that it creates conditions for new variants to develop.

Global Maritime Forum also says vaccination rates among seafarers are now higher than in most countries. The end of China’s zero-Covid policy has...

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Does Covid Reinfection Make You ‘Super Immune’?

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A recent study states that Covid-19 reinfections could pose additional risks to people’s long-term health – as compared to only getting Covid once – however, some infectious disease experts in the US disagree that there is evidence showing repeat infections are more dangerous, reports the Guardian.

COVID reinfection

The issue of the impact of repeated infections is becoming a crucial one in the United States as the Covid-19 pandemic is now tailing off amid a...

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Disposable Face Masks May Cause Lung Damage !

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Despite stopping respiratory viruses such as Covid-19,  disposable face masks can cause lung damage due to their main ingredient, a study found. 

Weathered Microplastics

Polypropylene (PP) is the main raw material of disposable masks and is a microplastic commonly encountered as disposable items in everyday life. Recent reports have suggested that weathered PP microparticles can be inhaled. However, the inhalation toxicology of PP microparticles is poorly...

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Covid Booster Gives Tenfold Increase In Antibodies!

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  • The booster was found to have given a tenfold increase in antibodies compared to the first two vaccines.
  • Chief nurse at North Bristol NHS Trust, Anne Morris, hopes the new research will encourage vulnerable people who have not yet had their booster.
  • The national study involved Bristol’s Children of the 90s, which has followed a cohort of thousands of people who were born in the city throughout their lives.

Vulnerable people who have had a third Coronavirus...

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Covid Outbreak Has Infected 80% Of Chinese Population

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  • The mass movement of people during the ongoing Lunar New Year holiday period may spread the pandemic, boosting infections in some areas.
  • China has passed the peak of COVID patients in fever clinics, emergency rooms and with critical conditions.
  • Nearly 60,000 people have died from COVID in hospital as of Jan. 12, roughly a month after China abruptly dismantled its zero-COVID policy.

The possibility of a big COVID-19 rebound in China over the next two or three...

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India All Set To Launch Its First Nasal Covid Vaccine

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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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Should China Worry About Its Declining Population?

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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 rich

The number of Chinese people fell by 850,000 from the previous year to 1.4118 billion, the statistics showed. Its...

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WHO Updates COVID Guidelines on Masks, Treatments & Patient Care

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WHO has updated its guidelines on mask wearing in community settings, COVID-19 treatments, and clinical management. This is part of a continuous process of reviewing such materials, working with guideline development groups composed of independent, international experts who consider the latest available evidence and the changing epidemiology.

Masks continue to be a key tool against COVID-19

WHO continues to recommend the use of masks by the public in...

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How Do Covid-19 Symptoms Evolve Over Time?

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A recent news article published in the BMJ speaks about How are covid-19 symptoms changing?

How have covid symptoms changed since the start of the pandemic?

With new variants and a changing landscape of vaccination and immunity, what do the symptoms of covid-19—and our understanding of them—now look like? Mun-Keat Looi reports

In the short space of a few years we’ve seen surprising changes in the way covid-19 presents. At the start of the pandemic the first...

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China Reports 60,000 Covid Deaths Since Early December

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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 China

Close 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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