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Covid-variant waves could be predicted by new AI model: ResearchAnalysing 9 million SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences across 30 countries from the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID), t...- China pushes back at WHO criticism over delayed Wuhan Covid dataAt the heart of the spat among officials between the WHO and China is a new set of data on specimens collected three years ago at the marke...
- Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?Of greatest concern is whether new variants will emerge from the mass infection unfolding in China and spread to other countries. The delta...
- Omicron subvariants BA.5.2, BF.7 responsible for latest COVID outbreak in China: WHOIn a statement, WHO said that the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) held a meeting with the Chinese Center for Disease C...
- Why China's Covid wave is stirring fearChina has only reported 15 Covid deaths since it began unwinding restrictions on December 7, shortly after which it narrowed the criteria b...
- Existing Covid strains driving China surge: ConsortiumChinese authorities submitted 25 new genetic samples from Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Guangzhou taken in the past month to GISAID, a databa...
- Covid-19: INSACOG confirms presence of BA.4, BA.5 subvariants of Omicron in IndiaIndia had reported the first case of Omicron BA.4 sub-variant in Hyderabad. First detected in South Africa, it is highly transmissible.
- China finds new virus subtype, daily cases top 13,000The new iteration of the virus, isolated from a mild Covid-19 patient in a city less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Shanghai, evolves f...
- Scientists on alert over rising cases caused by Omicron cousin BA.2Scientists are now tracking a rise in cases caused by a close cousin known as BA.2, which is starting to outcompete BA.1 in parts of Europe...
- As India braces for third Covid-19 wave, concerns around availability, quality and consistency of data remainExperts say that while work needs to be done on sequencing and accessibility of data, the focus must be on disease surveillance and ramping...
- Omicron will soon replace Delta as dominant global variant: ExpertsWhile Delta is still the most common variant in all continents except Africa, Omicron is spreading very quickly.
- 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...
- WHO declares B.1.1.529 Covid variant as a variant of concern, names it OmicronThis variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning, it said.
- Watch out for four emerging variants of coronavirus, warn health expertsHealth experts have called for strong surveillance on four emerging coronavirus variants, apart from the Delta-plus (B.1.617.2.1 or AY.1) s...
- Insacog set to scan data as Vietnam reports a hybrid variantVietnam reports detection of a new SARS-COV-2 variant, which is a combination of B.1.617 (first detected in India) and B.1.117 (found first...
- Emerging variants: Subtype B.1.617.2 was found in 1% of tests in January, 77% in AprilData suggests that B.1.617.2 has a 15% growth rate faster than even B.1.1.117 (the UK Kent variant). The Kent variant was predominant in th...
- Religious and political events among factors that accelerated COVID-19 transmission in India: WHOThe WHO, in its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, published Wednesday, said that viruses in the B.1.617 lineage were first reported i...
- WHO says Covid-19 variant B.1.617 first found in India detected in 44 countries"As of May 11, over 4,500 sequences have been uploaded to GISAID and assigned to B.1.617 from 44 countries in all six WHO regions," the glo...
- CSIR submits 53 genome sequences of coronavirus to global body; to share 450 more by May 15CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and Institu...
- ICMR plans to study whether novel coronavirus strain in India changed formHowever, the study can begin once the lockdown is lifted since currently there are difficulties involved in transportation of samples from ...
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