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COVID-19: Enemy is down but not out, cautions CCMB director Rakesh Mishra

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COVID-19: Enemy is down but not out, cautions CCMB director Rakesh Mishra

‘It will be suicidal if we say the risk is less,’ says CCMB director Rakesh Mishra. (Reuters file photo) If you are finding more people seeming careless and confused about COVID-19, you probably are not alone. Despite experts pointing out repeatedly that masks and social distancing are the only hope at the moment, many, it … Read more

Karnataka says 3 UK returnees with new Covid-19 strain and their contacts are isolated

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Karnataka says 3 UK returnees with new Covid-19 strain and their contacts are isolated

Bengaluru: Karnataka health department has isolated all three persons from the state who found Covid-19 positive with the new UK variant genome and has traced and tested their contacts, health minister K Sudhakar said on Tuesday. “Twenty six of 1,614 UK returnees are Covid positive of which the virus strain of three people matches with … Read more