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Covid third wave could peak between October-November; intensity expected to be 1/4 of second wave"Status Quo is when no new mutant comes and New Variant is when 50% more infectious mutant comes by September. As one can see, the only sce...
Congress wants to tarnish image of India, PM Modi: BJPIn accordance with the agenda of the toolkit, the Congress has instructed its social media volunteers to call the new mutant strain of COVI...
COVID: UK variant dominates North India, double mutant Maharashtra, Gujarat, KarnatakaAddressing a press briefing on Wednesday, Sujeet Singh, Director of National Centre for Disease Control said the UK strain is dominating pa...
‘Existing vaccines effective against new coronavirus variant’The Gupta Lab under the Cambridge Institute has been studying the evolution of SARS CoV 2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in patients in r...
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...
UK variant detected in 70 per cent samples sent by PGIMER“Seventy percent of the samples had UK variant of Covid-19 and 20 percent of the samples had 681 H mutant,” said Jagat Ram, the director of...
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 ...
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...
Covishield, Covaxin effective against UK, Brazillian variants; work against South African strain on: GovtICMR Director-General Balram Bhargava said that mutations are sporadic and single mutations are not found to be dominant in any particular ...
No proof COVID second wave due to virus variants, but it is possible: Virologist Shahid JameelVirologist Shahid Jameel, who has won the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, said the rollout of vaccines has caused a false sense of s...
India will not have Republic Day chief guest due to global coronavirus situation: MEA"Due to the global COVID 19 situation, it has been decided that this year there will not be a foreign head of state or head of government a...
Coronavirus: SpiceHealth, CSIR-IGIB launch genome sequencing lab at Delhi airport"We have started a pilot project with SpiceHealth here at the airport to find out if we can generate the 'sequence' in less than 48 hours a...
3 more test positive for COVID-19 UK strain in Karnataka: Minister"Thirty four UK returnees tested positive for COVID-19. Mutant coronavirus is found in ten people among them and all of them are recovering...
Gujarat: Four UK returnees detected with new coronavirus strainFour persons who recently returned to Gujarat from the United Kingdom (UK) have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus, a top st...
India's Health Ministry warns that New Year celebrations pose a 'superspreaders' threat, asks states to curb crowdingUnion Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to all the states and union territories asking them to curb crowding in the wake New Year...
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 ...
Coronavirus vaccine will be equally effective against new mutant of coronavirus: CSIR DGThe CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad have...