AY.4.2 variant of COVID-19 is less than 0.1 percent of all variants of concern and variant of interest (VOC/VOI) and is too low to be of co...

State Health and Family Welfare Commissioner D Randeep said, "There are seven cases (of AY.4.2) in the state -- three in Bengaluru and four...

"There are two suspected cases of AY.4.2 variant of viruses and I have instructed my department to send the samples for genomic sequencing ...

The AY.4.2 was first detected in July and is found to have caused one in ten Covid-19 cases in the UK. It is also detected in at least 30 m...

Six persons in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh were found infected with AY.4, Chief medical and Health Officer (CMHO) of the state B S Sa...

So far only 20-30 cases - or less than 0.1% of the cases sequenced in India - have been identified with the AY.4.2 sublineage of the Delta ...

AY.4.2, dubbed "Delta Plus" and now named VUI-21OCT-01 by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), has been under closer scrutiny in recent d...

Francois Balloux, professor of computational systems biology at University College London, has told AFP that the subvariant is rare and doe...

Overall infection rates in Britain remain stubbornly high, despite high rates of vaccination, and on Monday nearly 50,000 new cases of Covi...

Last week, the INSACOG said India has so far not seen Mu and C.1.2, the two new variants of SARS'CoV2, and the Delta variant and its sub-li...

It said based on high stringency reclassification by INSACOG, the total number of Delta sub-lineages - Delta Plus AY.1 to AY.12 - in India ...

INSACOG’s latest bulletin has pointed out that several cases in India classified as Delta are now being reclassified as AY.12 and these num...

“There has been concern about whether increasing vaccination breakthroughs in India are because of a new variant. It is noted that UK, with...

A new study by India’s top health research body has found that the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) has the potential to infect both vaccinated an...

The Delta variant was behind the deadly second wave of the coronavirus in India that killed thousands and infected lakhs during March to Ma...

The genomic analysis carried out as part of the study showed the Delta variant’s presence in the majority of the samples, but there also we...

This study indicated that the majority of the clinical cases in the breakthrough were infected with the Delta variant and only 9.8 per cent...