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Delhi: COVID safety circulars issued for schools and residents as new variant takes life in China

Mass gatherings of students will be avoided and school/class assemblies would be suspended for the time being, informed a school principal

Published on 22nd December 2022
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#WhatTheFAQ: BA4 and BA5 hit Indian shores. How does a virus mutate?

These new subvariants of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 have been pushing fresh waves in the United States, Europe and South Africa

Published on 23rd May 2022
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#WhatTheFAQ: There's a new COVID variant doing the rounds. Yikes! Let's learn about the XE variant

A newly discovered COVID-19 variant ‘XE’ has spared concerns worldwide. Here’s all there is to know about the virus, its characteristics and possible threats

Published on 7th April 2022
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West Bengal to evaluate COVID situation, exercise caution before reopening primary schools, says Mamata Banerjee

Open-air learning sessions for students up to class 7 started on February 7 under a project named 'Paray Shikshalay' 

Published on 12th February 2022
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How to keep Omicron woes at bay and continue being better learners as well as educators 

The ongoing pandemic has had devastating effects on many spheres of life, including our learning and teaching abilities. Here's what we could do to be better and do better 

Published on 11th February 2022
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This study by IIT Jodhpur researchers furthers our understanding of COVID-19 RNA variations 

Using Illumina, which is a sequencing platform, the research team at IIT Jodhpur studied intra-host Single Nucleotide Variations (iSNV)

Published on 10th February 2022
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Schools to open up in Kerala from February 7, kindergarten to Class 9 start from February 14

The health department said it has completed vaccination of 72 per cent of children in the age group of 15 to 18, while the second dose has been administered to 85 per cent of the targeted population

Published on 5th February 2022
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This 11-year-old Israeli boy has been infected with Alpha, Delta, and now Omicron. Here's his story

Despite his thorough experience with quarantine, Helfgott stated that boredom manages to overcome everything

Published on 31st January 2022
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When will Madhya Pradesh reopen schools? Here's what CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said

The state government had on January 14 ordered the closure of schools and hostels for Classes 1 to 12 till January 31 in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases at that time

Published on 31st January 2022
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What The FAQ: How deadly is the NeoCov virus? Should you be scared?

Yes, NeoCov does exist and is found in a species of bats called Neoromicia — thus the name NeoCo

Published on 29th January 2022
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DDMA's move to not open Delhi schools even as other states do so, disappoints principals and parents

Though the schools were briefly reopened, they have shut again on December 28 last year in view of the third wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant

Published on 29th January 2022
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COVID-19: India admits that Omicron sub-variant is gradually increasing

Talking about COVID fatalities, authorities said that the ones who are unvaccinated and people with comorbidities are in the high-risk group

Published on 27th January 2022
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Colleges in Karnataka's Ballari and Mandya districts report spike in COVID-19 cases 

In the last 24 hours, the number of new cases reported in Ballari is 904 and the number of active cases in the district has touched 5,773. The number of deaths reported stands at 1,690

Published on 24th January 2022
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IIT Madras gets a mobile detection facility for COVID-19. Here's how it can help those in remote areas

The van can travel to areas that are difficult to access, perform sample collection plus, process and analyse samples in real-time

Published on 22nd January 2022
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Survey finds 62% parents in Maharashtra unwilling to send kids back to school despite BMC's green light

Parents are of the opinion that schools should reopen only after the Total Positivity Rate (TRP) falls below five per cent in the state. Currently, the TRP is hovering at around 23.4 per cent

Published on 22nd January 2022

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