The XBB.1.5 strain is a relative of the Omicron XBB variant, which is a recombinant of the Omicron BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 subvariants. Combi...

The XBB.1.5 strain is a relative of the Omicron XBB variant, which is a recombinant of the Omicron BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 subvariants. Combi...

While the BMC claimed it had found the XE strain in the sample of a 50-year old South African costume designer who tested positive in Mumba...

India has reported more than a 6.3 times increase in cases in the last 8 days, the Health Ministry said in a briefing on Wednesday. The min...

Two more persons - one woman from the UK and another from Bangladesh, were kept in institutional quarantine after they were found infected ...

A woman, who came from the UK, has also been hospitalised in the state after she tested positive for COVID-19. Her sample has also been sen...

Kolkata, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has approved a USD 135 million loan to West Bengal to improve the ope...

In a letter to the West Bengal health secretary, issued on October 22, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the state has reported 20...

According to the official, the decision to carry out such sequencing was taken keeping in mind warnings of experts about a possible third w...

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry Govind Mohan, Additional Secre...

The threat of double and now a triple-mutant Indian strain, along with the deadly UK variant, are believed to be behind the latest surge ac...

“The proportion of B.1.618 has been growing significantly in recent months in Bengal,” said Vinod Scaria, who researches genome mutations a...

The new lineage called B.1.618 is distinct from the B.1.617, also known as the ‘double mutant' virus that contains two mutations, E484Q and...

While some argued that the mutated strains may not be resisted by vaccines, others pointed out that both Covishield and Covaxin were design...

"The youth is undergoing treatment at the state-run hospital's super-specialty section. He is under observation. We have advised all those ...

In February, a video of Athawale, along with a Chinese diplomat and Buddhist monks chanting "Go corona, go corona" at a prayer meeting went...

Top scientists in the country have estimated that the ancestor of the novel coronavirus strain from Wuhan was in circulation by Dec 11, 201...