Explaining about the sub-lineage, Rakesh Mishra, former Director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology said, “B.1.617 was the mu...

Any changes in the viral genetic sequence during replication is known as a mutation and viruses with new mutations are sometimes known as v...

Addressing a press briefing on Wednesday, Sujeet Singh, Director of National Centre for Disease Control said the UK strain is dominating pa...

He also warned that if the situation is not reversed, then the galloping infection rate will eventually cause a huge strain on the country'...

Coronavirus infections in India rose by 14,199 in the past 24 hours to more than 11 million, according to health ministry data. Deaths rose...

"All those arriving from Maharashtra and checking into hotels, resorts, hostels, homestays, dormitories, etc. shall compulsorily produce a ...

The RT-PCR test should be done by passengers on arrival at Bengaluru Airport, irrespective of whether they had a negative certifcate for th...

"Thirty four UK returnees tested positive for COVID-19. Mutant coronavirus is found in ten people among them and all of them are recovering...

"We are yet to trace 75 people who travelled from the UK... some foreign nationals are also there who might not have local contact numbers,...

The move comes even as seven returnees from Britain have tested positive for the new variant in the state so far, with three within the cor...

The union health ministry said a total of six samples of UK returnees have tested positive for the Britain variant of which three were from...

The state has stepped up efforts to trace all people who have flown in from the UK since December 7 and has made Covid-19 test mandatory, a...

India on Monday logged 20,021 fresh Covid-19 infections taking the total number of cases to 1,02,07,871, along with 279 deaths in the last ...

Yediyurappa on Tuesday said the government had no plans to impose night curfew amid growing concerns over the spread of the new Covid-19 st...

A day after ruling out the imposition of night curfew, Karnataka Chief Minister, B.S. Yediyurappa on Wednesday made a 'U' turn and announce...

The new protocol has been in place in the backdrop of the Union government suspending all flights to and from the UK till December 31 due t...

Murthy, 43, said that there was no reason to believe that the coronavirus vaccines that have already been developed would not be effective ...