As the infection travels your respiratory tract, your immune system fights back. Your lungs and airways swell and become inflamed. The coronavirus appears to directly infect the lungs. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease that generally attacks the airways, including…
How long does protection from COVID-19 vaccines last?
Experts don’t know this yet because they are still studying vaccinated people to see when protection might be lost. The effectiveness of the vaccine against the emerging variant will also determine if, when and how often additional shots are needed.…
NPHCDA Reports Vaccination of 1.09 million people with the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
According to National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA at least 1,096,727 persons representing 54.5 per cent of the eligible persons targeted with the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine have been administered their first dose. A breakdown of the update contained…
Comparing COVID-19 to other deadly viruses.
The global death toll from COVID-19 passed three million on Saturday, with the pandemic already having killed more people than most other viral epidemics of the 20th and 21st centuries. But there have been notable exceptions. The post-World War I…
UPDATE ON COVID-19
The World Health Organization warned Friday that the global tally of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 has almost doubled in the last two months, and is now approaching the highest rate seen since the start of the pandemic.…
Covid-19: Risks Of Getting Infected After Vaccination
As vaccination is going on across the world, there are a lot of burning questions in the minds of people. If you are like me, you might have questions about the vaccine, questions like “If I have I get vaccinated,…
Covid-19: Pace Can Help Fight Virus, Slow Walkers more likely to die; Says New study.
Research by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre has reported that slow walkers are four (4) times more likely to die from covid-19. The study titled “Obesity, walking pace and risk of severe COVID-19 and…