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    Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of long COVID symptoms, finds a...
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    Health

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    Delhi’s Heatwave: A Warning For Worse Summers To Come?

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    Common Steroids After ‘Long Covid’ Recovery May Cut Risk Of Death By Up To 51 Per Cent

    Researchers say that severe inflammation during hospitalization for COVID-19 increases risk of death within one year from seeming recovery by 61 per cent. This...
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    Green business

    Can AI-Designed Super Enzyme End Plastic Pollution Crisis?

    The latest developments in plastics research offer hope. Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a super enzyme termed as hydrolase that can...
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    Asia’s Coastal Cities ‘Sinking Faster Than Sea Level-Rise’

    Coastal cities in Asia are sinking faster than sea level rise, mainly due to unregulated groundwater extraction, say researchers identifying “fast-subsiding areas”. By Purple Romero Manila...
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