Tag: COVID-19 vaccines
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Air pollution can affect your Covid vaccine efficacy: Study
People exposed to higher levels of air pollution before the pandemic are likely to have lower antibody responses to Covid-19 vaccines, suggests a study. In particular, exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and blank carbon (BC) was associated with about a 10 per cent decrease in IgM and IgG antibody responses in…
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Bengal govt seeks 5.75 L COVID-19 vaccine doses from Centre
In wake of fresh spike in COVID-19 cases throughout the country, West Bengal health department has sought supply of 5.75 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the Centre. Of the 5.75 lakh doses, five lakh are for Covishield and the remaining 75,000 for Covaxin. A senior official of the state health department said that the…