BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant symptoms: How is it different from previous COVID strains, should you be worried?New Covid variant 2026 Cicada symptoms: The highly mutated new BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant has now spread to at least 23 countries, sparkin...
31 Mar, 2026, 04.45 PM IST
Omicron antibodies could provide immunity against Delta Covid variant: StudyThe variant has been shown to be highly transmissible and have extensive evasion of neutralising antibody immunity elicited by vaccination ...
30 Dec, 2021, 03.43 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
Delta remains main Covid variant of concern, others now negligible in sequencing data: INSACOGINSACOG, a consortium of 28 national laboratories, was set up in December 2020 to monitor the genomic variations in Sars-CoV-2, the COVID-1...
11 Nov, 2021, 04.17 PM IST
How Delta, Kappa variants of Covid evade immune systemthe Delta, Kappa, and Delta Plus variants reduce virus neutralising potency from vaccine-induced antibodies.
11 Nov, 2021, 11.20 AM IST
Facebook delays workers' return to office as Covid cases surgeThe leading social network set a new target of having employees back on its campuses in January.
13 Aug, 2021, 06.33 PM IST
Is Covid Delta variant causing more severe disease in young adults? Here's what the data saysRecently, young people are making up a greater proportion of people in hospital compared with earlier in the pandemic.
09 Aug, 2021, 06.00 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
Bharat Biotech's Covaxin effective against Delta Plus variant of COVID-19: StudyCovaxin, a whole-virion inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine used for mass immunization in the country, showed a 65.2 per cent protection against...
02 Aug, 2021, 05.10 PM IST
CDC internal report calls Delta variant as contagious as chickenpoxThe agency’s new masking guidelines for vaccinated people, introduced Tuesday, were based on the information presented in the document. The...
30 Jul, 2021, 11.05 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
From UK to Indonesia: How Delta variant is dominating global Covid surgeFirst identified in India last year, the fast-spreading variant has now become dominant in countries like the US and UK, leading to a signi...
09 Jul, 2021, 12.01 AM IST
5 cases of COVID-19 'Delta Plus' variant in Madhya Pradesh; 1 dead'Delta Plus' has been declared a variant of concern by the Centre. So far, three persons from Bhopal and two from Ujjain have been found in...
24 Jun, 2021, 01.10 PM IST
Delta+ has been lurking in Maharashtra for over 2 months nowDelta-plus cases were found in six districts of Maharashtra, with the most detected in Ratnagiri (9) and Jalgaon (7). Although most had Cov...
23 Jun, 2021, 04.02 PM 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
Covid: New 'Delta plus' variant identified; unlocking begins in some statesIndia has also been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload. The country’s active caseload today stands at 9,73,158. The caselo...
15 Jun, 2021, 12.16 AM 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