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After a year, omicron still driving COVID surges and worriesThe giant wave ebbed by mid-April. The virus mutated quickly into a series of sub-variants adept at evading immunity. A recent study in the...
WHO narrows in on Delta Covid variantThe UN health agency last month declared the entire strain a "variant of concern", or VOC, but on Tuesday, it said only one of the sub-line...
WHO says only one strain of COVID Delta variant 'of concern'The B.1.617 variant of the virus, which has in part been blamed for India's explosive outbreak, has been dubbed a triple mutant variant sin...
The SARS-COV-2 variants at play: All you need to knowAny changes in the viral genetic sequence during replication is known as a mutation and viruses with new mutations are sometimes known as v...
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...
60% of Indian variant samples tested in labs found in MaharshtraAbout 59% samples of the newly identified and infectious Indian variant of SARS-CoV-2 called B.1.617 have been found in Maharashtra, althou...
Presence of UK strain in Delhi Covid cases doubles in less than a monthAlso, more than 11% of samples from across India show “variants of concern”, said experts at research institutes who have done genome seque...
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...
India's Covid 'storm': How did situation get so bad during second waveIt has taken just 17 days for the daily case count to rise from 1 lakh on April 4 to over 3 lakh on Wednesday. During this period, cases ha...
Majority want govt to suspend flights from UK, South Africa amid jump in COVID-19 cases: SurveyAs many as two-thirds of the people want the government to suspend flights from the UK and South Africa amid a near sharp increase in the n...