Omicron rewrites the COVID plan for 2022Some scientists are not entirely ready to abandon hope that some parts of the world will emerge from the pandemic next year.
17 Dec, 2021, 05.20 PM IST
COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against Omicron - WHOPreliminary evidence indicates that COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against infection and transmission linked to the Omicron corona...
15 Dec, 2021, 04.47 PM IST
Pfizer, AstraZeneca Covid vaccines generate more antibodies than natural infection: StudyAntibodies produced after an infection by the original viral strain also reacted to SARS-CoV-2 variants that emerged in subsequent waves, n...
08 Nov, 2021, 06.04 PM IST
Clover says its COVID-19 vaccine candidate 67% effective in large trialChina's Clover Biopharmaceuticals said it would submit the trial data for conditional approval to the World Health Organization and regulat...
22 Sep, 2021, 05.20 PM IST
On INSACOG radar: Delta sublineage AY.12 driving surge in IsraelINSACOG’s latest bulletin has pointed out that several cases in India classified as Delta are now being reclassified as AY.12 and these num...
26 Aug, 2021, 09.55 AM IST
Delta variant dominates breakthrough infections: Insacog“There has been concern about whether increasing vaccination breakthroughs in India are because of a new variant. It is noted that UK, with...
19 Aug, 2021, 09.46 AM IST
Daily Covid cases rising in 37 districts in nine statesSeven districts in Tamil Nadu, six in Himachal Pradesh, five in Karnataka, two each in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal, and on...
11 Aug, 2021, 07.19 AM IST
70 cases of Delta Plus variant found in genome sequencing in India, Lok Sabha toldIn Maharashtra, 23 cases of Delta Plus variant were detected, followed by 11 in Madhya Pradesh, 10 in Tamil Nadu, four in Chandigarh, three...
30 Jul, 2021, 03.50 PM IST
Many variants at work in Kerala; Delta in Maharashtra, Northeast: InsacogOn Wednesday, Kerala had announced a complete lockdown on July 17 and 18 but it may need to be extended further to have any effect. The rea...
15 Jul, 2021, 08.28 AM IST
COVID-19: Variants of Concern found in 174 districtsThe Variants of Concern (VOC) detected by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) in community samples are Alpha, Beta, Gamma a...
07 Jul, 2021, 06.27 PM IST
Delta the 'most transmissible' of variants identified so far, spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations: WHO chief"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...
28 Jun, 2021, 11.03 AM IST
Delta variant now reported in 85 countries, expected to become dominant lineage, says WHOWHO said the four current 'Variants of Concern' being monitored closely - Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta - are widespread and have been detec...
25 Jun, 2021, 09.51 AM IST
Delta has not gone; worried about intensified second wave in rural India: IGIB chiefThe second wave of the pandemic has just moved out of the big cities, but the intensified spread of Covid-19 in rural India is a bigger con...
25 Jun, 2021, 08.27 AM IST
AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines effective against Delta COVID-19 variants: StudyThe study by Oxford university investigated the ability of monoclonal antibodies in Sera from recovered people and from vaccinated people t...
23 Jun, 2021, 10.48 PM IST
COVID-19 vaccines less effective against Delta variant, says WHOThe WHO expert added that the "constellation of mutations" in coronavirus variants could lead to vaccines becoming ineffective.
21 Jun, 2021, 11.13 PM IST
Coronavirus variants get new (simpler) names; strain first detected in India to be called Delta variantWHO revealed new names amid criticism that those given by scientists were complicated.
01 Jun, 2021, 11.15 AM IST
Traders resort to gamma scalping as volatility dropsIndia Vix, based on Nifty option prices, has fallen 33% from a year ago to 11.66.
09 May, 2017, 08.18 AM IST