COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Nepal, emerging UK variant and futuristic vaccination strategies to combat the ongoing pandemic

With the emergence of the new variants of concern (VOC) of the SARS-CoV-2, the efficacy of certain vaccines against them requires further research and considerations for future scenarios of COVID-19 vaccination. The vaccines' lack of efficacy against VOC will pose at risk to the vaccinated popu...

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Autores principales: Sah, Ranjit, Khatiwada, Asmita Priyadarshini, Shrestha, Sunil, Bhuvan, K.C., Tiwari, Ruchi, Mohapatra, Ranjan K., Dhama, Kuldeep, Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33781945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102037
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author Sah, Ranjit
Khatiwada, Asmita Priyadarshini
Shrestha, Sunil
Bhuvan, K.C.
Tiwari, Ruchi
Mohapatra, Ranjan K.
Dhama, Kuldeep
Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
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Khatiwada, Asmita Priyadarshini
Shrestha, Sunil
Bhuvan, K.C.
Tiwari, Ruchi
Mohapatra, Ranjan K.
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description With the emergence of the new variants of concern (VOC) of the SARS-CoV-2, the efficacy of certain vaccines against them requires further research and considerations for future scenarios of COVID-19 vaccination. The vaccines' lack of efficacy against VOC will pose at risk to the vaccinated population and is a public health threat. In this commentary, we discuss Nepal's recent experiences and expectations regarding the confirmation of VOC B.1.1.7 from the United Kingdom in the country.
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spelling pubmed-79979042021-03-29 COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Nepal, emerging UK variant and futuristic vaccination strategies to combat the ongoing pandemic Sah, Ranjit Khatiwada, Asmita Priyadarshini Shrestha, Sunil Bhuvan, K.C. Tiwari, Ruchi Mohapatra, Ranjan K. Dhama, Kuldeep Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J. Travel Med Infect Dis Commentary With the emergence of the new variants of concern (VOC) of the SARS-CoV-2, the efficacy of certain vaccines against them requires further research and considerations for future scenarios of COVID-19 vaccination. The vaccines' lack of efficacy against VOC will pose at risk to the vaccinated population and is a public health threat. In this commentary, we discuss Nepal's recent experiences and expectations regarding the confirmation of VOC B.1.1.7 from the United Kingdom in the country. Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2021-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7997904/ /pubmed/33781945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102037 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Sah, Ranjit
Khatiwada, Asmita Priyadarshini
Shrestha, Sunil
Bhuvan, K.C.
Tiwari, Ruchi
Mohapatra, Ranjan K.
Dhama, Kuldeep
Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Nepal, emerging UK variant and futuristic vaccination strategies to combat the ongoing pandemic
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title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Nepal, emerging UK variant and futuristic vaccination strategies to combat the ongoing pandemic
title_short COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Nepal, emerging UK variant and futuristic vaccination strategies to combat the ongoing pandemic
title_sort covid-19 vaccination campaign in nepal, emerging uk variant and futuristic vaccination strategies to combat the ongoing pandemic
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33781945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102037
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