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While figures published by the government during weekends tend to show a reduction in both cases and deaths compared with weekdays, it was ...

AY.4.2, dubbed "Delta Plus" and now named VUI-21OCT-01 by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), has been under closer scrutiny in recent d...

First identified in India last year, the fast-spreading variant has now become dominant in countries like the US and UK, leading to a signi...

Public Health England (PHE), which has been conducting regular analysis of COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC), said on Monday that the late...

Vietnam health minister Nguyen Thanh Long did not specify the number of cases recorded with this new variant but described the latest mutat...

After successfully containing the coronavirus for most of last year, Vietnam is now battling an outbreak that is spreading more quickly.

An analysis by Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), which assessed more than 3,500 samples as on May 4, reveals that 1,877 samp...

“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...

Genomic sequencing is an advanced test that determines the precise genetic information a virus carries as viruses mutate as they multiply a...

With 81 per cent of the latest 401 samples sent by the state for genome sequencing turning up positive for the new UK Covid variant, Punjab...

The new report is based on analysis of a dozen studies that found the so-called Kent variant, named after the county where it was first ide...

"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...

Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus, and it was still unclear w...

The situation is being monitored and regular advice is being given to the states for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing and dispat...

Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. A comprehensive contact-tracing exercise has been initiated for their co-travelle...

Of the 12 UK-returned passengers who tested positive for COVID-19, only the woman had the new strain, state Health Commissioner Katamaneni ...