Fast-spreading, less mild and evasive? Why Omicron puzzle has kept world on edgeUK has reported over 50% rise in weekly Covid cases while daily infections in South Africa have swelled by 75-times since the start of Nove...
20 Dec, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
China reports spurt of Delta strain 'sub-lineage' cases of COVID-19China has reported a sudden flare-up of COVID-19 cases in Zhejiang Province which registered 138 locally-transmitted confirmed cases stated...
13 Dec, 2021, 11.04 AM IST
Spike in COVID-19 cases in China caused by Delta variant: officialsChina's national capital on Monday classified one area as medium-risk and a residential community as high risk for COVID-19 as total cases ...
25 Oct, 2021, 06.50 PM IST
Clover says its COVID-19 vaccine candidate 67% effective in large trialChina's Clover Biopharmaceuticals said it would submit the trial data for conditional approval to the World Health Organization and regulat...
22 Sep, 2021, 05.20 PM IST
Will focus on dealing with pandemic here than to delve in conspiracy theories: Supreme CourtA bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and Hima Kohli said the petitioner NGO 'Abhinav Bharat Congress' and its president Pankaj ...
06 Sep, 2021, 07.13 PM IST
No of COVID-19 breakthrough infections in India within expected numbers: INSACOGIt said based on high stringency reclassification by INSACOG, the total number of Delta sub-lineages - Delta Plus AY.1 to AY.12 - in India ...
01 Sep, 2021, 04.01 PM IST
More than 200 million coronavirus cases worldwide: AFP tallyThe number of infections is currently rising sharply, driven primarily by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, but the number...
05 Aug, 2021, 01.29 PM IST
After months as a COVID success story, China tries to tame deltaChina is facing its biggest challenge since the virus first erupted in the Chinese city of Wuhan last year: the highly transmissible delta ...
05 Aug, 2021, 11.59 AM IST
Delta surge: How an overseas flight from Moscow broke through China's Covid defencesOn Wednesday, China reported its highest daily number of local coronavirus cases in months at 71. The number of new cases has been increasi...
04 Aug, 2021, 08.24 PM IST
China sounds Covid-19 alarm as Delta variant spreads to 18 provincesAt least 18 provinces in China have sounded alarm about Covid-19 as more than 300 domestic cases were detected in 10 days, posing great cha...
03 Aug, 2021, 10.25 AM IST
Millions under virus lockdown as China battles Delta outbreakThe central city of Zhuzhou in Hunan province ordered over 1.2 million residents on Monday to stay home under strict lockdown for the next ...
03 Aug, 2021, 07.13 AM IST
Market pricing in spread of Delta variant, slowing marginal growth: Jim O’Neill“More and more people have become more optimistic about the recovery and markets have priced it in. But if now it is the case that the marg...
08 Jul, 2021, 02.56 PM IST
Delta strain eight times less sensitive to vaccine antibodiesThe study found that the Delta variant not only dominated vaccine-breakthrough infections with higher viral loads compared with non-Delta i...
06 Jul, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
48 Delta Plus cases found so far, Maharashtra tops the listInfections with the Delta Plus variant have been reported from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil ...
26 Jun, 2021, 07.58 AM IST
Antibodies triggered by Chinese COVID-19 shots less effective on Delta variant: ResearcherFive out of the seven domestically developed vaccines in China's mass inoculation scheme are inactivated vaccines. These include shots from...
25 Jun, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
No sufficient data to be alarmed about Delta Plus variant: Maharashtra COVID-19 task force memberNotably, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Monday said 21 cases of the Delta Plus variant, considered highly infectious, have been...
23 Jun, 2021, 11.33 AM IST
22 cases of Delta Plus variant of Covid found in Maharashtra, MP, Kerala: GovtIndia is among the 10 countries where the Delta Plus mutation has been found so far, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said at a press ...
22 Jun, 2021, 10.19 PM IST