India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,03,95,278 with 20,346 new infections being reported in a day, while the number of recoveries surpassed one crore, according to data updated by the Union health ministry on Thursday.
The death toll increased to 1,50,336 as 222 people succumbed to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 a.m. showed.
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Protective immunity against novel coronavirus may last for over eight months: study
The findings, based on analyses of blood samples from 188 COVID-19 patients, suggest that nearly all survivors of the disease have the immune cells necessary to fight re-infection.
“Our data suggest that the immune response is there — and it stays,” Professor Alessandro Sette from La Jolla Institute for Immunology in the U.S. The researchers measured antibodies, memory B…