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Not a new virus, HMPV detection has improved due to heightened surveillance, better diagnostics: CIDS

Reiterating that Human Metapneumovirus is not a new virus and there was no cause for alarm, the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society has stated that advancements in diagnostic technologies have improved the detection of HMPV in recent years. Elaborating on the population at risk, CIDS said that HMPV is the second most common cause of respiratory tract infections in children after …

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Amid rapid surge in number of coronavirus cases across the country, the World Health Organization representative to India Dr Roderico H Ofrin on Tuesday said the vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics available continue to be effective against the Indian Covid-19 variant, which has been classified as a “variant of concern”. Our Epi teams and our lab teams internally, there is some …

Coronavirus test kits will be delivered by DRONE to residents in El Paso Texas who live near Walmart

Walmart has begun a project to deliver coronavirus testing kits by drone for residents in El Paso, Texas. Drones will now deliver COVID-19 home self-collection kits from Walmart amid a surge in cases in El Paso, Texas A test flight is flown by a DroneUp pilot in preparation for drone delivery of COVID-19 home self collection kits from Walmart A …

Kerala, which attained global acclaim for its successful model of global pandemic management, is witnessing exponential growth in the number of positive cases in last couple of weeks. As the state is in the third phase of pandemic outbreak when the virus transmission is centered in active clusters, experts stress the need to increase the number of COVID-19 testing to …