Covid Latest Live News Updates: Moderna CEO says people may need another booster in fall of 2022 – The Economic Times
The efficacy of boosters against COVID-19 is likely to decline over the next few months and people may need another shot in the fall of 2022, Moderna Inc Chief Executive Officer Stephane Bancel said at a Goldman Sachs-organized healthcare conference on Thursday. Bancel said the company is working on a vaccine candidate tailored to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but is unlikely to be available in the next two months. “I still believe we’re going to need boosters in the fall of ’22 and forward,” Bancel said.
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PM Modi to inaugurate the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) via video-conferencing today. The second campus has been built in line with the PM’s vision to expand & upgrade the health facilities in all parts of the country: PMO
In view of rising COVID-19 cases, government and sub-ordinate offices in the state will function with 50% staff attendance from January 7 to 31: Odisha Govt
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Activate control rooms, monitor those in home isolation, says government
- Aiming to ensure strict monitoring of Covid-19 patients under home isolation, the Centre has advised states to activate all Covid control rooms at the district and sub-district level to collate the daily status report of patients under home isolation and submit a report to the district administration.
Omicron slams UK retail recovery
- Restrictions imposed in the wake of the Omicron coronavirus variant have “wiped out” much of a recent recovery enjoyed by UK bricks-and-mortar stores, the British Retail Consortium revealed Friday.
- Much of the progress made in late 2021 “was wiped out in December as surging Omicron cases and new work-from-home advice deterred many from shopping in-store, particularly in towns and city centres”, noted BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson.
UN Security Council to meet Monday on North Korean missile launch
- The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors Monday to discuss the testing of what North Korea said was a hypersonic missile, according to diplomatic sources.
- The meeting was requested by the United States, France and the United Kingdom — three of the five permanent members on the Security Council — as well as Ireland and Albania, the sources said Thursday.
After 7 months, daily cases surge past 1 lakh, up from 10,000 in just 8 days
Centre has urged nine states and Union territories to ramp up Covid-19 testing to ensure that infected people do not spread the virus to others.
India on Wednesday saw the biggest single-day jump of 495 Omicron cases, taking the total number detected Omicron-infected cases to 2,630.
In a letter to Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Jammu & Kashmir and Bihar, additional secretary in the health ministry Arti Ahuja pointed out a considerable decline in Covid-19 testing amid rising cases and positivity rate.
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