Everything you need to know about the autumn COVID booster jab

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The country’s active caseload declined to 48,850, with total reported cases, since the onset of the pandemic at more than 4.44 crore New Delhi: India logged 5,554 new covid-19 cases and 18 deaths due to the infection in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said in an update on Saturday. The country’s active caseload declined to 48,850, with total reported cases, since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, at more than 4.44 crore.

India lodged 5,554 new covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said in an update on Saturday. The country’s active caseload declined to 48,850, with total reported cases, since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 1.47% and the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 1.80%, according to the health ministry.

Diana Jenkins reportedly has COVID.This means the 49-year-old blonde beauty will not be able to attend Friday's taping of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills reunion alongside Lisa Rinna, Garcelle Beauvais, Kathy Hilton and Kyle Richards, among others.The star has been showing symptoms, according to TMZ, and is under a doctor's supervision.  She has recently fallen ill: Diana Jenkins has claimed to have COVID and is under doctor's care, per TMZ; seen in 2017But Diana will still have a presence at the reunion special as she will be participating via Zoom, the site added.Jenkins has been in Hawaii for the past several days during a late summer vacation. She has been enthusiastically sharing photos from the trip on Instagram.But sources tell TMZ that she is already back in Los Angeles where she is trying to recuperate from the virus.This is not the first time a reality TV star has missed a reunion special due to COVID.

An observational study of 219 unvaccinated long-COVID patients with neurologic symptoms in the Amazon concludes that 64% had a persistently impaired sense of smell, which the authors said could be permanent.

After the emergence of the Omicron variant, the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States was 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated adults and 2.5 times higher in those who were vaccinated but received no booster than in booster recipients, according to a new study.

Pfizer’s Paxlovid has been approved by US FDA for COVID treatment. Jagadeesh Babu Rangisetty, Co-founder and Managing Director at Zenara Pharma, said, "We have launched this product in India with an aim to bring the best treatment options against COVID within reach of patients in our country.

The Centre has directed states and union territories to monitor incoming international travellers as a part of revised surveillance strategy in context of covid-19.Besides this, states have been also asked to monitor lnfluenza-like illness (lLl) & SARI cases, undertake constant genome sequencing, and step-up vaccination. NEW DELHI: India lodged 6,093 new covid-19 infections and 31-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said in an update on Friday. The country’s active caseload declined to 49,636, with total reported cases, since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, at more than 4.44 crore.

As per the health ministry data, active Covid cases have further declined to 49,636 from 50,342. The active cases comprises 0.11 per cent of the total infections. India recorded 6,093 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Friday.

Today we are reporting 1,483 community cases, 243 current hospitalisations.

COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals ticked upward this week, as admissions showed signs of continuing their downward trend.As of Sept. 8, there were 324 cases in hospital, a one-week increase of 18, while the number of cases in critical care fell by three to 22, according to the B.C.

Findings from two large clinical trials published yesterday in BMJ discount the notion that vitamin D supplements protect against COVID-19 or other respiratory-tract infections, although both had notable limitations.

Sentiment has fallen to levels typically associated with worse financial and economic conditions than today’s The University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment measures how U.S. consumers feel about their personal finances, business conditions and buying conditions.

Findings from two large clinical trials published yesterday in BMJ discount the notion that vitamin D supplements protect against COVID-19 or other respiratory-tract infections, although both had notable limitations.

latest weekly update — double the number of new deaths reported last week.With this latest update, the COVID-19 death toll in the province has now surpassed 500. Since the pandemic began, a total of 507 people have died, 395 of whom died during the Omicron wave.The province also said that in the seven-day period ending Sept. 5, 33 people were admitted to hospital, a decrease of five from the previous week.

(L) Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first reigning monarch to open a session of the Canadian Parliament as she reads a speech from the throne in the Senate Chamber in Ottawa in 1957. (R) Queen Elizabeth II ahead of the Queen's Speech in the House of L LONDON - What does the world look like without Queen Elizabeth II? The British monarch, who died on Thursday at age 96,served as a constant, stabilizing force throughout her 70-year reign.

The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II, has died.

COVID-19 vaccine that protects against the Omicron variant.Sylvia Jones says long-term care residents and health-care workers will receive the doses first.Health Canada said last week it has approved the new shot from Moderna, which targets both the original strain of the novel coronavirus and the original Omicron variant.

Lisa Jarvis: Throughout the pandemic, Covid vaccines and treatments were free in the US. What could a commercial market mean for individual consumers? Sam Fazeli: It will be tough for the booster campaign.

A little girl looks through binoculars towards North Korea from a viewing platform covered with ribbons bearing goodwill messages during a visit to Goseong Unification Observatory on February 22, 2018 in Goseong-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Carl Court SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea’s new government on Thursday proposed a meeting with North Korea to discuss a resumption of reunions of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War, despite long-strained ties between the rivals over the North’s nuclear weapons program.Family reunions are a highly emotional humanitarian issue because they involve people in their 80s and older who are desperate to see their long-lost relatives before they die.

World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that even as COVID cases and fatalities related to the infection continue to decline, it is still the ‘most dangerous time’. WHO chief said that it is ‘encouraging’ that COVID infection and deaths are declining but, still one person is dying of it every 44 seconds.  Explaining this, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, a downward trend can be the most dangerous time, if it opens the door to complacency.  The global decline in reported cases and deaths is continuing.

Virus remaining in some people’s bodies for a long time may be causing longer-term complications, recent research suggests The virus that causes Covid-19 can remain in some people’s bodies for a long time.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The United Nations Development Programme has ranked Sri Lanka in the "High Human Development" category, occupying the rank 73 with an HDI of 0.782 in 2021.The Human Development Index for 2021/22 highlights that the rise in insecurity around the globe, including the development decline caused as a consequence of COVID-19 has caused for the projected levels of human development of 0.750 to decline to 0.732. Last year, Sri Lanka’s Human Development Index ranked 72 out of 189 countries, which was the highest in the South Asian region. According to the report, Sri Lanka's life expectancy at birth is 76 years, while the expected years of schooling is 14.1, while mean years of schooling is 10.8.The report further states that Sri Lanka's Gross National Income (GNI) per capita is $12,578.In comparison, Switzerland remains at the top of the index with a life expectancy of 84 years, an average of 16.5 years of education and median salary of $66,000.However, South Sudan remains at the bottom, with a life expectancy of 55, people spending just 5.5 years in school on average and earning $768 a year. 

Over 144 million people are affected by Long COVID and around 10-20% of people who were infected by the coronavirus, experience post-COVID syndrome. Data shows how agonising the disease and its long terms effects can be. However, a recent study revealed the risk of long COVID in children appears to be lower than what has been reported in adults and the symptoms are quite unique.

Long COVID is a complex medical condition that can be hard to diagnose as it has a range of more than 200 symptoms - some of which can resemble other illnesses - from exhaustion and cognitive impairment to pain, fever and heart palpitations, according to the World Health Organization. There is no authoritative data on the frequency of suicides among sufferers.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-first regular session from 12 September to 7 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, currently serving as acting High Commissioner, will present the High Commissioner’s oral update on Monday, 12th September.Under agenda item two on the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General, the Council will hold separate interactive dialogues on the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.In addition, the following reports will also be taken up:The report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.The High Commissioner’s report on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua.At an organizational meeting held on 30 August in preparation for the session, the President of the Council, Federico Villegas, bid farewell to High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, whose term of office ended on 31st August.  States will have a chance to respond to the High Commissioner’s update and to other reports presented under agenda item two in the general debate on 13th and 14th September.The Council will take action on draft decisions and resolutions on 6th and 7th October, and will also appoint a number of Special Procedure mandate holders before closing the session.

A United Nations report argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

Assam has 2802 active cases, Gujarat has 1353 active cases. Karnataka 4373 active cases while Kerala has 10659 active cases New Delhi: India has logged 6,395 new covid-19 cases and 33 deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data showed on Thursday. The country’s active caseload is nearly 50,000 while total number of covid cases rose to 4.4 crore with 5,28,090 fatalities so far.

India saw another rise in Covid-19 cases with 6,396 infections reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The rise comes a day after the country reported 5,379 cases. Prior on 6 September, India saw lowest cases in three months which was 4,417.

Today we are reporting 1,653 community cases, 254 current hospitalisations.

WHO informed in its pandemic report. WHO's technical lead on Covid-19 Maria Van Kerkhove noted that the virus has still not settled into a seasonal pattern and will require constant surveillance and possible changes in diagnostics, treatments and vaccines.

Eye donation and transplantation which were severely hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic, are now witnessing a spike in the national capital Delhi. According to Dr JS Titiyal, Chief of RP Centre, AIIMS, Delhi said, "COVID really killed the eye donation movement in the country during the first wave". Dr Titiyal said that he had hoped to touch 3,000 transplantations per year, however, due to Covid-19, the target will take another nearly three years to achieve.

Ontario Science Table calls for provincial strategy to manage long COVID “In this year’s influenza season in Australia, case counts were higher than any previous year in the past five years, and while influenza hospitalizations were lower than the worst two influenza seasons in the past five years, they did peak at a level higher than the five-year average,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw wrote.“If we see a similar impact here, what we need to anticipate as being different from any previous year is the combined impact on all our systems of all these viruses circulating at the same time.”Like other jurisdictions, Alberta’s latest influenza season had a late-season start and the numbers of lab-confirmed positive cases were fewer than in the past five years.

Among a cohort who never had COVID-19 but tested positive within 1 year after baseline, depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, and concerns about infection were linked to a 33% to 50% increased risk of self-reported postinfection symptoms lasting at least 4 weeks, as well as functional impairment, finds a study published today in JAMA Psychiatry.

At the global level, COVID-19 cases declined for the fourth week in a row, which the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said is encouraging, though not a guarantee that the trend will persist in the months ahead.

COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) beginning on Thursday.The health unit said it will bring COVID-19 vaccination clinics to TIFF, the Cabbagetown Arts and Crafts Show and other locations across the city this weekend. Global cases of COVID, monkeypox trending down, but WHO warns against complacency According to TPH, COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held at the following events:TPH said its mobile clinics provide “first, second, third, fourth and pediatric COVID-19 doses to eligible residents aged five and older on a walk-in basis, with no appointment or health card required.”“Pfizer and Moderna will be offered by TPH nurses who will also answer COVID-19 vaccine-related questions,” a news release read.The health unit said all eligible residents are “encouraged to get their third and fourth doses as soon as possible.”“As with vaccinations for other diseases, people are protected best when their COVID-19 vaccinations are up to date,” the release said.

Today JAMA Network Open published a study showing a 1.8% COVID-19 infection rate among in-person attendees at a February 2022 Academic Surgical Congress conference in Florida in which 100% of participants were vaccinated and 92% were boosted.In addition to requiring vaccination, in-person attendees were

Western University requiring staff and students returning to campus to have received a COVID-19 booster shot by the start of October has been pushed back until the new year.The university says the decision comes in response to the approval by Health Canada last week of Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine targeting both the original novel coronavirus and the original Omicron variant.Instead of Oct. 1, students, faculty and staff are now required to submit current proof of vaccination to the school by Jan.

iNCOVACC vaccine for emergency use on Tuesday. Maria Van Kerkhove the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19, while welcoming the news said, "We look forward to seeing the data to see how this could be incorporated into the response for Covid-19." Van Kerkhove says it could not yet be predicted that the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind Covid-19 disease would settle down into a seasonal pattern.

Covid-19 may increase the chance of developing persistent “long-haul" symptoms. Notably, preinfection psychological distress was associated with a higher risk of post-Covid conditions, researchers at the Harvard T.H.

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While Delhi witnessed an active caseload of 1,021, Maharashtra has 7,701 cases and Haryana 815 cases, New Delhi: India logged around 5,379 new covid cases and 27 deaths in the last 24 hours. The trajectory of active cases have reached to 50,594 taking the total number of covid cases to more than 4.4 crore and 528057 deaths so far, the union health ministry data stated on Wednesday. While Delhi witnessed an active caseload of 1,021, Maharashtra has 7,701 cases, Haryana has recorded 815 cases, Assam has reported 2819 cases while Kerala has reported more than 10149 covid cases at present.

India gave emergency approval to the world’s second covid-19 vaccine that can be delivered as nasal drops. The vaccine was jointly developed by Covaxin-maker Bharat Biotech and Washington University St.

SHARON HILL, Pa. - Leveling the Playing Field and the Philadelphia Eagles joined forces to collect sports equipment for children from disadvantaged communities. With the start of the new school year in full swing, so are school sports, so some Eagles players helped unload boxes of donated equipment.Eagles linebacker, T.J.

Today we are reporting 1,793 community cases and 260 current hospitalisations.

Ministry of Health Deputy Director-General and head of the Public Health Agency, Dr Andrew Old, will hold a media briefing today in Auckland at 12 noon today to provide an update on the COVID-19 response.

COVID-19 vaccine passports in the province.The Commissaire à la lutte contre la corruption (UPAC) reports that Carolane Fournier is accused of several charges, including breach of trust, the production of false documents and fraudulent use of a computer.Fournier was working as an attendant at a vaccination site at Université Laval in Quebec City last year. In a statement Tuesday, UPAC said she entered false information for herself and others, which then allowed them to obtain falsified vaccine proofs.“The offenses were committed between Sept.

A study of 346 previously healthy COVID-19 survivors finds that 73% had cardiac signs and symptoms more than 3 months after infection, and 57% still had them at nearly 1 year.In the study, published yesterday in Nature Medicine, a team led by