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What is the hantavirus that killed three cruise ship passengers?A deadly hantavirus outbreak has claimed three lives on a luxury cruise ship. Five more individuals are confirmed or suspected cases. The A...
Brazil confirms presence of coronavirus variant first identified in IndiaBrazil suspended flights from India last week following the recommendation of the National Health Surveillance Agency.
Contagious and concerning: What we know about Covid-19 variantsVariants that have emerged in Britain, South Africa, Brazil and now India have all been the focus of fears of implications for the Covid-19...
Covid-19: Of 15,000 virus sequences, 11% comprise of UK, SA and Brazil variants; UK strain dominant in IndiaLast year at the time when the virus broke its loose pan-India, Maharashtra was hit badly with most reported cases of which almost close to...
Covaxin neutralises double mutant strain: ICMR"ICMR study shows Covaxin neutralises against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively neutralises the double mutant strain as well,...
COVID clinical symptoms, CT scans/X-rays should be used to rule out false negatives: ExpertsAccording to government data till April 15, a total of 1,189 samples have tested positive for 'variants of concern' of SARS COV-2 in India ...
1,189 samples have tested positive for variants of concern of SARS COV-2 in India: Health MinistryThese include 1,109 samples testing positive for the UK variants, 79 for the South Africa variant and one sample for the Brazil variant, th...
Contagious and concerning: What we know about Covid-19 variantsOf the current known variants, three are particularly worrying: those initially detected in southeast England, South Africa and in travelle...
No new strain of novel coronavirus detected in Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab: GovtIn written reply to a question, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey said that after the detection of variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the...
India's total cases of mutant coronavirus strains reach 795Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told Rajya Sabha on March 16 that no case of reinfection by mutant variants of SARS-CoV-2 viru...
Need to change Covaxin composition not felt yet due to vaccine's good efficacy against mutant variants: GovernmentProviding details of the efficacy rate of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines against each of the mutations, he said there was no significant d...
3 new variants reported in India: GovernmentAs on March 4, a total 242 samples have tested positive for different variants in India, Choubey said in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha q...
Pfizer Covid shot neutralises Brazilian strain in lab studyIn lab experiments, the shot demonstrated “roughly equivalent” levels of neutralising activity against the Brazil and UK strains compared w...
Oxford study indicates AstraZeneca effective against Brazil variant, source saysThe data indicates that the vaccine will not need to be modified in order to protect against the variant, which is believed to have origina...
Sinovac vaccine may not trigger sufficient antibody response to Brazil variant, says studyThe emergence of variants of the new coronavirus has raised concern that vaccines and treatments that were developed based on previous stra...
Four detected with South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 in India, one with Brazil strainOne Brazil returnee has tested positive for the Brazil variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the first week of February. The traveller and contacts have...
UK bans arrivals from South America over Brazil virus variantPortugal was also added to the banned list because of close travel links with Brazil, he said. Workers transporting essential good from Por...