The Pune-based vaccine manufacturer is among a list of nearly 20 Indian companies across sectors such as healthcare, biotech and software s...

The number of coronavirus cases has exploded in Delhi and Maharashtra over the last few weeks and crippled the healthcare sector. Several h...

The UK variant was found in 28 per cent of samples in the second week of March. In the last week of the month, 50 per cent of samples had t...

The novel coronavirus, which has killed 2.65 million people globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, mutates around once every two ...

The novel coronavirus, which has killed 2.65 million people globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, mutates around once every two ...

Of the 73 cases, the mutated UK strain was detected in eight samples at National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi, in 20 at the...

She said the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia (INSACOG), formed to ascertain the status of new variants of the virus through genome sequ...

It said comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimen...

Out of these 29 cases, eight have been registered at National Centre for Disease Control in Delhi, two at CSIR Institute of Genomics and In...

The samples have been tested positive in various laboratories across the country. “3 in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, 2 in CCMB, Hyderabad and 1 in N...

Variations in gene sequences will keep happening as the virus spreads across the globe, says principal scientific adviser K VijayRaghavan. ...

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

Describing the new strain, which is said to be 70% more infectious than the earlier ones, as a ‘super spreader’ and an ‘adverse development...

The Union health ministry is also considering sequencing the genes of all those who came into the country from the UK and tested positive f...

A number of European countries have banned flights from the UK as the British government warned that the potent new strain of the virus was...

Department of Biotechnology to rope in 22 partners for project that will help develop better therapies.