Variants that have emerged in Britain, South Africa, Brazil and now India have all been the focus of fears of implications for the Covid-19...

Also, more than 11% of samples from across India show “variants of concern”, said experts at research institutes who have done genome seque...

Three variants of concern have been recognised by WHO, the UK variant (B.1.1.7), the Brazilian variant P1, and the South African variant B....

Both Covaxin and Covishield — the two vaccines against Covid in use in India — are effective against the UK variant, which is one of the tw...

ICMR Director-General Balram Bhargava said that mutations are sporadic and single mutations are not found to be dominant in any particular ...

Of the current known variants, three are particularly worrying: those initially detected in southeast England, South Africa and in travelle...

Covishield is safe and there is 'no signal of concern' regarding it as of now, the Centre asserted on Wednesday amid reports of possible si...

"Please don't spread doubt. As of today, these vaccines work on the good old virus as well as the new variants," NITI Aayog member (Health)...

As 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...

The data indicates that the vaccine will not need to be modified in order to protect against the variant, which is believed to have origina...

Britain said six cases had been detected of the "P.1" variant identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus, against which current vaccines ap...

The ICMR had announced on Tuesday that Pune-based National Institute of Virology was in the process of isolating and culturing the South Af...

On Tuesday, the Health Ministry said four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the ...

For the first time in India, four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the Brazil v...

Speaking at a press conference, Dr VK Paul said India can draw huge satisfaction over the progress made so far in the vaccination programme...

"What's concerning about this is that the 1.1.7. variant that we have had circulating for some weeks and months is beginning to mutate agai...

Britain has detected 77 cases of the South African variant of Covid-19, the health minister said on Sunday, also urging people to strictly ...