The variant has been shown to be highly transmissible and have extensive evasion of neutralising antibody immunity elicited by vaccination ...

INSACOG, a consortium of 28 national laboratories, was set up in December 2020 to monitor the genomic variations in Sars-CoV-2, the COVID-1...

the Delta, Kappa, and Delta Plus variants reduce virus neutralising potency from vaccine-induced antibodies.

The leading social network set a new target of having employees back on its campuses in January.

The number of infections is currently rising sharply, driven primarily by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, but the number...

Covaxin, a whole-virion inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine used for mass immunization in the country, showed a 65.2 per cent protection against...

The agency’s new masking guidelines for vaccinated people, introduced Tuesday, were based on the information presented in the document. The...

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...

"I know that globally there is currently a lot of concern about the Delta variant, and the WHO is concerned about it too," Director-General...

'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...

The study by Oxford university investigated the ability of monoclonal antibodies in Sera from recovered people and from vaccinated people t...

Delta-plus cases were found in six districts of Maharashtra, with the most detected in Ratnagiri (9) and Jalgaon (7). Although most had Cov...

Notably, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Monday said 21 cases of the Delta Plus variant, considered highly infectious, have been...

Taking to Twitter, the official handle of the Russian vaccine affirmed that Sputnik V's efficacy is better on the Delta variant than any ot...

India has also been witnessing a continuous fall in the active caseload. The country’s active caseload today stands at 9,73,158. The caselo...

According to Public Health England, 63 genomes of Delta (B.1.617.2) with the new K417N mutation had been identified so far.

The UN health agency last month declared the entire strain a "variant of concern", or VOC, but on Tuesday, it said only one of the sub-line...