COVID-19: FIR against Chandrababu Naidu for creating fear over N440K strainOne M Subbaiah from Kurnool town has registered a complaint against Naidu, stating that he has created fear among the people of Kurnool by ...
08 May, 2021, 08.33 AM IST
Double mutant infecting more than UK variant nowWhile the incidence of the UK variant seemed to be declining, the double mutant variant B.1.617 - found in Maharashtra - could be a cause o...
06 May, 2021, 10.06 AM IST
Tripura government sounds alert after three strains of COVID-19 are found in the stateImmediately after the receipt of the test results of outsiders by the state government, Tripura health secretary J K Sinha held a virtual m...
30 Apr, 2021, 05.37 PM IST
Asymptomatic patients transmitting virus like a wildfire in IndiaThe threat of double and now a triple-mutant Indian strain, along with the deadly UK variant, are believed to be behind the latest surge ac...
24 Apr, 2021, 12.07 PM IST
Double and triple mutants of coronavirus one and the same; vaccines effective on it: ScientistThese variants harbour 15 lineage defining mutations. B.1.617, initially termed double mutant, has three new spike protein mutations. Two m...
23 Apr, 2021, 06.02 PM IST
Covaxin neutralises double mutant strain: ICMR"ICMR study shows Covaxin neutralises against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively neutralises the double mutant strain as well,...
21 Apr, 2021, 02.41 PM IST
Coronavirus: What makes India's double mutant COVID variant, B.1.617 so concerning?Is the double mutant virus, much like the Kent or Brazilian COVID variant, the sole reason for the rise in cases? Does it also bring forth ...
12 Apr, 2021, 02.53 PM IST
Troubling "Eek" variant found in most Tokyo hospital COVID casesThe E484K mutation, nicknamed "Eek" by some scientists, was found in 10 of 14 people who tested positive for the virus at Tokyo Medical and...
04 Apr, 2021, 10.21 AM IST
Covishield or Covaxin: Mutant strains in some West Bengal patients raise concerns over vaccine efficacyWhile some argued that the mutated strains may not be resisted by vaccines, others pointed out that both Covishield and Covaxin were design...
27 Mar, 2021, 03.42 PM IST
India's total cases of mutant coronavirus strains reach 795Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told Rajya Sabha on March 16 that no case of reinfection by mutant variants of SARS-CoV-2 viru...
23 Mar, 2021, 06.06 PM IST
Need to change Covaxin composition not felt yet due to vaccine's good efficacy against mutant variants: GovernmentProviding details of the efficacy rate of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines against each of the mutations, he said there was no significant d...
19 Mar, 2021, 05.15 PM IST
Two new variants of SARS-CoV-2 not reason for surge in cases in Maharashtra, Kerala: GovtCoronavirus infections in India rose by 14,199 in the past 24 hours to more than 11 million, according to health ministry data. Deaths rose...
23 Feb, 2021, 07.27 PM IST
WHO, vaccine makers train guns on any new mutations of Covid-19The emergence of mutant strains of the SARS Cov2 virus has raised fear of another wave of the pandemic that could lead to ineffective vacci...
23 Feb, 2021, 09.46 AM IST
Total 71 persons detected with new UK Covid strainAccording the Health Ministry, all these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective...
07 Jan, 2021, 09.08 AM IST
20 more cases with UK corona strain found in India, total 58Of these total cases, eight have been registered at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 11 at CSIR Institute of Genomics and In...
05 Jan, 2021, 02.31 PM IST
West Bengal reports first case of new COVID strain"The youth is undergoing treatment at the state-run hospital's super-specialty section. He is under observation. We have advised all those ...
30 Dec, 2020, 11.20 AM IST
COVID mutant: Govt says focus on enhanced genomic surveillance; Taskforce suggests no change in treatment protocolThe genomic surveillance consortium, INSACOG, has been formed under the leadership of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New D...
26 Dec, 2020, 09.38 PM IST