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Vax susceptibility to new variants

Considering the fact that almost all of the vaccines manufactured by the various multinational companies and governments of various nations of the world were targeting Covid-19 virus strain that first emerged in China’s Wuhan, it would appear that with later mutations having taken place.

That too because the initial virus found resistance to infect and thus modified its genome sequencing so as to be more infectious, with the number of variants having developed, most of the infectious of which as far as fatalities was concerned was the Delta variant and although the Omicron variant became more widely infectious but did not claim many lives, because it was relatively milder, it should be borne in mind that variants such as the BF.7 and even later variants could lead to the fact that other more lethal viruses could become more infectious.

Thus measures have to be taken to prevent further spread of worse variants and infecting vaccinated people who have even taken booster doses. In light of  this, discreet measures might still be taken as long as variants capable of breaching the protection of the vaccines become a threat which is in the realm of possibilities.


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China may spark another global Covid surge

S Kamat, Alto Santa Cruz
Published Dec 31, 2022, 12:51 AM IST
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With China admitting that there is a Covid surge, we are back at square one. Not only that China has confirmed that it has given up the ‘zero-Covid’ policy in the wake of local public protests and has also commenced processing passports and visas for its citizens to travel abroad.The Chinese newspapers lately reported that given the restrictions faced by them over the last three years and the current relaxations as above their citizens are planning to travel to foreign…

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