Residents under Covid lockdowns in China complain of food shortages

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Residents under Covid lockdowns in China complain of food shortages

Residents under Covid lockdowns across China are complaining of shortages of food and essential items, the media reported on Monday.

Tens of millions of people in at least 30 regions have been ordered to stay at home under partial or full lockdowns, says the BBC.

“It’s been 15 days, we are out of flour, rice, and eggs. From days ago, we run out of milk for kids,” said one resident in western Xinjiang.

Authorities are scrambling to contain local outbreaks ahead of the Communist Party of China’s congress in October.

China’s zero-Covid policy requires strict lockdowns, even if just a handful of cases are reported.

On Monday, China recorded 949 new Covid cases across the entire country, the BBC reported.

The policy has prompted rare public dissent from citizens and has also been accused of stifling economic growth.

In Xinjiang, a weeks-long lockdown in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture near the border with Kazakhstan has seen desperate residents appeal for help on social media, BBC reported.

One post showed a video of an Uyghur man overcome with emotion, saying his three children had not eaten for three days.

In Yining city, the capital of Ili, a shared online document with over 300 urgent requests for food, medicine, and sanitary pads was widely circulated.

“I’m out of money to buy supplies. My wife is pregnant and we have two kids. We are running out of gas. My wife needs a medical check,” said another resident, BBC reported.

The region has a mixed population of Han Chinese, Kazakh and Uyghur residents.

Earlier this month a UN report accused China of “serious human rights violations” against Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, the BBC reported.

Rights groups say that more than a million Uyghurs had been detained against their will. Beijing says its network of camps is a tool to fight terrorism.

In south-western Guizhou province, authorities locked down an area of the provincial capital Guiyang without warning, stranding 500,000 residents at home without any chance to prepare.

Lung cancer stimulate in the non-smoking humans than air pollution: Scientists

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Lung cancer stimulate in the non-smoking humans than air pollution: Scientists

Scientists find out a new system that small particles of air may chance to produce lung cancer in people who are never smoked.

Air cells with climate change may also create disrupt cells of cancer, researchers also found treatment roots and protection from the dangerous forms.

Data of the particular air cells have been produced by the Francis Crick Institute and University, College London, Cancer Research UK, at ‘ESMO Congress 2022.

According to the data around 250,000 patients were died due to lung cancer worldwide per year, those cells which are produced by vehicles are attached to small cancer particles with risk in the air.

“The particles, which are released by the burning of fossil fuels, remaining sources are direct effects for the human body with the already dangerous cancer cells in the body,” They explained.

Actually, we have low chances of getting lung cancer from air pollution than smoking but we don’t have access to control our breath air on everybody.

“Weather public around the world knowingly or unknowingly, people are affected by pollution of air more than cigarette smoking chemicals. Present data will help to create new strategies for human health and build a good environment,” Charles Swanton from the Francis Crick Institute said.

Based on the human gene, other research on patients who are already suffering from lung cancer without smoking, and research on a gene called EGFR, new data has been discovered.

In a study of nearly half a million people living in England, South Korea, and Taiwan, exposure to increasing concentrations of airborne particulate matter (PM) 2.5 micrometers (I’m) in diameter was linked to an increased risk of NSCLC with EGFR mutations.

In the laboratory studies, scientists showed that the same pollutant particles (PM2.5) promoted rapid changes in airway cells which had mutations in EGFR and in another gene linked to lung cancer called KRAS, driving them towards a cancer stem cell-like state.

“We found that driver mutations in EGFR and KRAS genes, commonly found in lung cancers, are actually present in normal lung tissue and are a likely consequence of aging,” said Swanton.

However, when lung cells with these mutations were exposed to air pollutants, “we saw more cancers and these occurred more quickly than when lung cells with these mutations were not exposed to pollutants”, suggesting that air pollution promotes the initiation of lung cancer in cells harboring driver gene mutations.

“The next step is to discover why some lung cells with mutations become cancerous when exposed to pollutants while others don’t,” said Swanton.

Tony Mok from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who was not involved in the study, said that the research is intriguing and exciting.

“It means that we can ask whether, in the future, it will be possible to use lung scans to look for pre-cancerous lesions in the lungs and try to reverse them with medicines such as interleukin-1I inhibitors,” said Mok.

“We don’t yet know whether it will be possible to use highly sensitive EGFR profiling on blood or other samples to find non-smokers who are predisposed to lung cancer and may benefit from lung scanning, so discussions are still very speculative,” he added.

Pre-covid-19 test has been stopped by South Korea for inbound travellers.

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Pre-covid-19 test has been stopped by South Korea for inbound travellers.

Covid-19 test compulsary before going to the travel in South Korea , but now test is not mandatory for inbound travellers. With in 24 hours of entry into the South Korea Shall Test there.

South Korea’s Covid-19 cases are under 90,000 still saturday from 3 days before.

New Covid-19 cases are at 79,746 in the country include from other country. Total cases stopped at 23,497,048, According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.

The earlest reports shows 9840 down off from last days and this very slow down in saturday in all six weeks.

According to the KDCA 74 deaths are registered as covid in 24 hours, total death count at 27,014. The covid-19 virus is going down generally.

Health official are carefully in the increasely cases for coming month as South Koreans want to set their travels to their homes for festival of harvest holiday on September month.

First Bivalent Covid-19 booster dose has approved by Canada.

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First Bivalent Covid-19 booster dose has approved by Canada.

Health Canada has authorised an adapted version of the Moderna Spikevax Covid-19 vaccine which targets the original SARS-CoV-2 virus from 2019 and the Omicron (BA.1) variant.

According to a statement issued by the agency on Thursday, this vaccine, known as a “bivalent” vaccine, is authorised for use as a booster dose in individuals aged 18 years or above.

This is the first bivalent Covid-19 vaccine authorised in Canada, said the agency, adding that the bivalent Moderna Spikevax booster is safe and effective with the same mild adverse reactions that resolved quickly, Xinhua news agency reported.

Clinical trial results showed that a booster dose of the bivalent Moderna Spikevax vaccine triggers a strong immune response against both Omicron (BA.1) and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus strain, the agency added.

It was also found to generate a good immune response against the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, and is expected to extend the durability of protection, Health Canada said.

New age of Covid vax shows promising outcomes

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New age of Covid vax shows promising outcomes

A group of specialists is fostering a Covid immunization intended to be less delicate to changes and will probably be prepared for future strains.

According to a review, distributed in the diary EMBO Molecular Medicine, the immunization showed promising outcomes in mice, and the specialists presently desire to have the option to take it somewhere safe and secure for examination on people.

“The thought is that it will give more extensive security that more looks like that acquired after a genuine contamination and will be a smidgen more future evidence than the immunizations as of now being used,” said scientist Matti Sallberg, a teacher at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

In this recently distributed study, the scientists show that the immunization shields mice against serious disease from the beta variation of SARS-CoV-2, a variation that can dodge the resistant reaction, and enacts safe cells (T cells) that perceive the Covid viewed as in bats.

Various sorts of immunizations have been profoundly instrumental in obstructing the pandemic brought about by the Covid SARS-CoV-2. One test is the infection impermanence, or, in other words, its capacity to change to keep away from the human guard reaction.

Latest antibodies depend on utilizing portions of the Covid’s purported spike protein to set off the body’s resistant reaction to the infection. It is a decent immunization protein to utilize, yet sadly, it is the spike protein where regular transformations happen, which can influence the immunizations’ viability.

The scientists are, hence, fostering an immunization containing more pieces of the infection, including ones that don’t change at a similar rate as the spike protein.

The immunization is a DNA immunization, and that implies that it involves DNA successions that, when infused into the body, make the cells produce the proteins that the DNA groupings contain guidelines for, the specialists said.

This situation, concerns DNA for parts of the spike protein from three distinct Covid variations and DNA for another two infection proteins, called M and N, where transformations are more uncommon.

India logs 10,725 new Covid cases, 36 deaths

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India logs 10,725 new Covid cases, 36 deaths

India reported 10,725 fresh Covid cases and 36 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the country had recorded 10,649 Covid cases.

With 36 more Covid deaths, the nationwide toll has reached 5,27,488.

The active caseload of the country has come down to 94,047 cases, accounting for 0.21 percent of total positive cases.

The recovery of 13,084 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,37,57,385. Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.60 percent.

India’s daily positivity rate has marginally risen to 2.73 percent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 3.20 percent.

Also in the last 24 hours, a total of 3,92,837 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 88.39 crores.

As of Thursday morning, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 210.82 crores, achieved via 2,80,58,526 sessions.

Over 4.01 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of the vaccination drive for this age bracket.

Exercises on a daily base may lower Covid infection, and severity risk.

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Exercises on a daily base may lower Covid infection, and severity risk.

In the event that you work-out consistently, there are chances you might have a lower hazard of Covid-19 contamination and seriousness, including clinic confirmation and passing, tracks down another review.

The review, distributed in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, proposes that a week after week count of 150 minutes of moderate force, or 75 minutes of enthusiastic power, actual work appears to manage the cost of the best security.

“Our discoveries feature the defensive impacts of taking part in adequate actual work as a general wellbeing system, with likely advantages to diminish the gamble of extreme Covid-19,” said specialists, remembering Yasmin Ezzatvar from the Universitat de Valencia for Spain.

For the review, the group scanned three significant exploration information bases for applicable examinations distributed between November 2019 and March 2022, and from an underlying take of 291, pooled the aftereffects of 16.

The investigations included 1,853,610 grown-ups, simply over portion of whom (54%) were ladies. The typical time of members was 53.

The majority of the examinations were observational and were done in South Korea, England, Iran, Canada, the UK, Spain, Brazil, Palestine, South Africa and Sweden.

The pooled information examination showed that, in general, the people who remembered normal active work for their week after week schedule had a 11 percent lower chance of contamination with SARS-CoV-2, the infection liable for Covid-19.

They likewise had a 36 percent lower chance of emergency clinic confirmation, a 44 percent lower hazard of serious Covid-19 sickness, and a 43 percent lower hazard of death from Covid-19 than their genuinely idle companions.

The greatest defensive impact happened at around 500 Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET) minutes seven days, after which there could have been no further upgrades.

The specialists alert that the investigation included observational examinations, contrasting review plans, emotional appraisals of actual work levels, and concerned just the Beta and Delta variations of SARS-CoV-2 as opposed to Omicron, all of which might debilitate the discoveries.

India logs 18,930 new Covid-19 cases, 35 deaths

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India logs 18,930 new Covid-19 cases, 35 deaths

In the last 24 hours, India logged 18,930 new Covid-19 cases, an increase against the 16,159 infections reported the previous day, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

In the same period, there were 35 additional deaths due to the virus which took the nationwide death toll to 5,25,305.

The active caseload increased to 1,19,457, accounting for 0.27 percent of the country’s total positive cases.

The recovery of 14,650 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,29,21,977. Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.52 percent.

The daily positivity rate also marginally increased to 4.32 percent, while the weekly positivity rate stood at 3.86 percent.

Also in the same period, a total of 4,38,005 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 86.53 crores.

As of Thursday morning, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 198.33 crores, achieved via 2,59,53,259 sessions.

Over 3.71 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of the vaccination drive for this age bracket.

 

India logs 17,092 fresh Covid cases, 29 deaths

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India logs 17,092 fresh Covid cases, 29 deaths

India witnessed a marginal rise in its daily Covid tally with 17,092 new cases in the past 24 hours, against the previous day’s 17,070 counts, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

In the same period, 29 Covid deaths were recorded taking the nationwide death toll to 5,25,168.

Meanwhile, the active caseload has also increased to 1,09,568, accounting for 0.25 percent of total positive cases.

The recovery of 14,684 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,28,51,590. Consequently, the recovery rate stands at 98.54 percent.

Meanwhile, the Daily Positivity rate has also marginally increased to 4.14 percent, while the Weekly Positivity Rate currently stands at 3.56 percent.

Also in the same period, a total of 4,12,570 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 86.32 crores.

As of this morning, the Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 197.84 crores, achieved via 2,57,98,020 sessions.

Over 3.68 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of the vaccination drive for this age bracket.

India reports 17,070 new Covid cases, 23 deaths

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India reports 17,070 new Covid cases, 23 deaths

India reported 17,070 Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, a marginal decline from the previous day’s count of 18,819, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs.

In the same period, the country reported 23 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide toll to 5,25,139.

The active caseload has also surged to 1,07,189 cases, accounting for 0.25 percent of the country’s total positive cases.

The recovery of 14,413 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,28,36,906. Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.55 percent.

Meanwhile, India’s daily positivity rate has also marginally declined to 3.40 percent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 3.59 percent.

Also in the same period, a total of 5,02,150 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 86.28 crores.

As of Friday morning, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 197.74 crores, achieved via 2,57,61,312 sessions.

Over 3.67 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of the vaccination drive for this age bracket.

 

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