"Status Quo is when no new mutant comes and New Variant is when 50% more infectious mutant comes by September. As one can see, the only sce...

Several experts believe that a casual approach that followed the trough of the first wave could be a possible reason for the pandemic raisi...

While the incidence of the UK variant seemed to be declining, the double mutant variant B.1.617 - found in Maharashtra - could be a cause o...

Ravi, who is also the member of Karnataka’s Covid technical advisory committee, stressed on the need to ramp up medical infrastructure to t...

The Gupta Lab under the Cambridge Institute has been studying the evolution of SARS CoV 2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in patients in r...

The threat of double and now a triple-mutant Indian strain, along with the deadly UK variant, are believed to be behind the latest surge ac...

"ICMR study shows Covaxin neutralises against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively neutralises the double mutant strain as well,...

“Seventy percent of the samples had UK variant of Covid-19 and 20 percent of the samples had 681 H mutant,” said Jagat Ram, the director of...

Is the double mutant virus, much like the Kent or Brazilian COVID variant, the sole reason for the rise in cases? Does it also bring forth ...

Just like there were no answers to why there was a slide in number of infections earlier this year, there is no clarity on why the numbers ...

PM Modi on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting on the ongoing Covid surge in India and said that community awareness and its involvement is...

When asked why the UK variant has not been found majorly in cases in the neighbouring states of Himanchal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, Mishr...

While some argued that the mutated strains may not be resisted by vaccines, others pointed out that both Covishield and Covaxin were design...

Virologist Shahid Jameel, who has won the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, said the rollout of vaccines has caused a false sense of s...

Minister 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...

"The youth is undergoing treatment at the state-run hospital's super-specialty section. He is under observation. We have advised all those ...

The genomic surveillance consortium, INSACOG, has been formed under the leadership of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New D...