Explainer: Delta dominates the world, but scientists watch for worrisome offspringDelta is more than two times as contagious as previous SARS-CoV-2 variants, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
16 Nov, 2021, 11.32 PM IST
High COVID-19 rate in 0-19 age group in India; frequent post-jab infections with Delta variant: StudyThe COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week, said a cross-sectional study, which ...
08 Oct, 2021, 12.18 PM IST
WHO reports global decline in new COVID-19 casesLast week's drop marked the first substantial decline for more than two months, with falling COVID-19 cases in every world region.
22 Sep, 2021, 04.33 PM IST
Surprise uptick in spending by Americans as delta spreadRetail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.7% in August from the month before. That uptick caught economists looking for a downturn by surpr...
16 Sep, 2021, 07.22 PM IST
What investors want to learn from Fed's Powell at Jackson Hole meetWhile expectations for market-moving revelations are low for the Fed's one-day 2021 Economic Policy Symposium, which will be held online in...
27 Aug, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
COVID-19 numbers in SE Asia plateaued over past month mainly due to cases in India remaining stable: WHOThe COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, released by WHO on August 10, said that the South-East Asia Region reported over 799,000 new ca...
12 Aug, 2021, 10.57 AM IST
Fed's Kashkari: Delta may throw wrinkle into taper plan"If we see a very strong labor market this fall, the way I've been expecting, then I think we could say we probably have made 'substantial ...
06 Aug, 2021, 08.40 AM IST
Chris Wood ready to buy any big dip in Nifty"My only concern about India is a tactical one that the Indian market has done extremely well and valuations are high," Christopher Wood, g...
22 Jul, 2021, 01.15 PM IST
Dramatic drop in Covid deaths but US must stay vigilant about Delta variant: BidenEarlier this month, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had said that new Covid infections with the Delta variant account ...
21 Jul, 2021, 08.14 AM IST
Spread of COVID-19's Delta variant will substantially up cases, put pressure on healthcare: WHOIn its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update released on Tuesday, the World Health Organisation said that an overall rise in COVID-19 case...
14 Jul, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
US top coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci terms Delta strain of COVID-19 as 'nasty variant'"The bad news is that we have a very nasty variant, the good news is that we have a vaccine that works against it," The Hill quoted Fauci's...
11 Jul, 2021, 09.32 PM IST
COVID-19: Detected across 30 countries, Lambda variant 'deadlier' than DeltaLambda accounts for nearly 82 percent of the coronavirus case samples reported during May and June in Peru, Euro News reported citing the P...
07 Jul, 2021, 05.32 PM IST
Delta dominant variant in US, makes up more than half of COVID-19 cases: CDCThe variant, also known as B.1.617.2, was first detected in India in December and is spreading quickly across the globe. In some parts of A...
07 Jul, 2021, 03.22 PM IST
Explained: How Delta variant, first found in India, is spreading rapidly around the worldThe highly transmissible variant, first identified in India in late-2020, is behind the fresh surge being reported in countries like the UK...
25 Jun, 2021, 09.45 PM IST
US' Centers for Disease Control calls coronavirus Delta variant a 'variant of concern'Earlier, the CDC had considered the Delta variant to be a variant of interest. It also underscore delta to be 50 per cent faster than the A...
16 Jun, 2021, 09.40 AM IST
Delta plus: New Covid variant identified, experts say no cause of concern for nowThough there is no indication yet of the severity of the disease due to the new variant, Delta plus is resistant to the monoclonal antibody...
14 Jun, 2021, 05.47 PM IST
Covid Delta variant found in India may have mutated into a more dangerous drug-resistant Delta+According to Public Health England, 63 genomes of Delta (B.1.617.2) with the new K417N mutation had been identified so far.
14 Jun, 2021, 10.38 AM IST