India sees marginal dip in daily Covid-19 cases, logs 13,900 new infections
India on Saturday reported 13,272 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s cumulative toll to 4,43,27,890, according to Union Health Ministry data. With these new cases, India’s active downloads have decreased from 1,01,830 to 1,01,166.
A total of 13,900 people have recovered from coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recovered people to 4,36,9,435 in the country. The recovery rate remained consistent at 98.58%.
In India, the daily positivity rate is 4.21%, while the weekly positivity rate is 3.87%. More than 88.21 crore tests have been carried out to detect coronavirus infections in the country since the global pandemic began.
Nationwide, more than 209.40 doses of the Covid-19 crore vaccine have been administered to eligible subjects to date, including 13.15,536 doses administered in the last 24 hours.
How to fight Covid-19 on all variants?
More than two and a half years after the coronavirus pandemic, researchers have achieved a breakthrough in against deadly virus that further mutates and evades the immune response that humans develop thanks to available vaccines.
What started with the coronavirus, deepened the Delta variant, the Omicron variant and their respective sub-variants, thus causing an alarming decline and the flow of new covid-19 cases globally.
At the time, the researchers announced that they had discovered a flaw, a ‘weakness’, across all variants that could help develop a targeted anti-body treatment. than. They found a fragment of the VH Ab6 antibody. This shard is known to be effective against Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Kappa, Epsilon and Omicron variants.
According to a statement from the University of British Columbia, VH Ab6 is known to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 by attaching to the epitope on the mutant protein and preventing the virus from entering human cells.
An expert mentioned that this important vulnerability can now be exploited by drug manufacturers, and since the site is relatively mutation-free, the resulting treatments could work with variants. now – and even in the future -.
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