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Doctors shouldn't practice unethical, immoral, unscientific COVID-19 treat
Updated : 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 24 (ANI): India's top virologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang has called the prescription of monoclonal antibody therapy by the doctors in the private hospitals of the country for the treatment of Omicron variant of COVID-19 patients "unethical, immoral and unscientific"
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Study on feasibility of mixing COVID-19 vaccine doses to be available by F
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): The effectiveness of heterologous vaccine doses against new COVID-19 variants is likely to come in six weeks after the trial in the Christian Medical College, Vellore, said top virologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang, on Friday.
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Children should be sent to schools, COVID-19 infection generally not sever
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): With India set to begin vaccination of children in the 15-18 age group from January 3 against coronavirus, Dr Gagandeep Kang, a leading virologist, has said that children should go to schools as COVID-19 infection is not much severe in them.
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We have to learn to live with COVID-19, India better prepared to deal with
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 31 (ANI): Noting that people will have to learn to live with COVID-19 due to the possibility of the emergence of new virus variants, India's leading virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang has said that the country is better prepared to deal with coronavirus amid a rise in cas
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Dr. Gagandeep Kang suggests people to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 as its
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): Suggesting people to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants which will continue to emerge, Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang, however, on Friday said that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is comparatively less severe than other variants.
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No data shows need for booster vaccines presently: Dr Gagandeep Kang
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): Speaking about when a booster dose should be administered, Dr Gagandeep Kang, professor at Christian Medical College Vellore on Tuesday, said some countries that have used inactivated, vectored vaccines or mRNA vaccines have begun to offer a booster dose t
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Mixing and matching of vaccines will help overcome shortage: Dr Gagandeep
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): Mixing of COVID-19 vaccines should be done with the ones available in India, Dr Gagandeep Kang, Christian Medical College, Vellore's professor, and top microbiologist and virologist said on Thursday adding that it will help to overcome the vaccine shortage.
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COVID-19: Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang suggests reopening of schools in ph
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): As the COVID-19 cases in the past few weeks decreased significantly after the nation witnessed a ravaging second wave in April-May, India's top virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang on Thursday said that schools should be reopened in a phased manner with vaccinat
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Number of cases in third COVID wave will depend on variants and strains: D
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): IIT Kanpur and IIT Hyderabad have predicted the third wave of COVID-19 in mid-August that will see a rise in cases in October, but top microbiologist and virologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang said that this will depend on the type of variants, and added that if
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Import vaccines to ramp up vaccination against COVID-19, says Dr Gagandeep
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): India should get more COVID-19 vaccine doses through import but globally there is a vaccine shortage and the option with the government is to buy Russian or Chinese vaccines, says Dr Gagandeep Kang, a top virologist.
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Deaths a 'lagging indicator' of Covid-19 , will stabilise soon: Dr Gagande
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Vellore (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 25 (ANI): India's leading virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang has said that since the number of Covid-19 cases in the country has stabilized now, the number of deaths due to the virus will also stabilize soon and if it fails to do so then it can only point to an is
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