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Hong Kong detects new COVID-19 variant in people with travel history to South AfricaHong Kong has detected a newly identified COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529. which is causing an increase in new Covid-19 infections in South Afr...
Vietnam detects hybrid of Indian and UK COVID-19 variantAfter successfully containing the coronavirus for most of last year, Vietnam is now battling an outbreak that is spreading more quickly.
UK health authorities elevate version of Indian COVID-19 variant as concerningAccording to a report based on leaked data by the BBC, Public Health England (PHE) is said to have recommended the B.1.617.2 version of the...
I never saw any report which said numbers will go very high: Biotech Secy"The B.1.167 (Indian) variant is prevalent in Maharashtra and we are seeing it now growing and increasing in other states like Delhi and Ka...
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...
View: Pandemics are caused by germs but spread by people who are in denialThe 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu had a mild first wave but returned later in the year to cause havoc. In India there were an estimated 12 to 20 milli...
'Covaxin, Covishield both work against Covid's UK strain'Both Covaxin and Covishield — the two vaccines against Covid in use in India — are effective against the UK variant, which is one of the tw...
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 ...
Mutation in spike protein dominant form of Covid, eight times more infectiousThe study confirms findings that D614G, one of the mutations, makes the virus more transmissible.
No data on efficacy of India's COVID vaccines against South African, Brazilian variants: ScientistsOn Tuesday, the Health Ministry said four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the ...
Pfizer vaccine can neutralise coronavirus variants first reported in UK, SA: StudyAccording to the scientists, including those from the University of Texas in the US, these variants have a substitution of the amino acid b...
Masks probably may never even go, says ICMR chief Balram Bhargava"We don't know how much of the population we'll have to vaccinate to break the virus transmission. What we know is that we've been able to ...
India successfully isolates and cultures UK-variant of coronavirus strain: ICMRCulture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside their natural environment.
The new coronavirus variant in South Africa: Are concerns justified?Several countries, including Britain which has found the mutant variant in cases linked to South Africa, have banned flights from South Afr...
Scientists say UK strain unlikely to affect efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, warn against more mutationsMore than 40 countries, including India, have banned travel to and from the UK, a move several scientists said was necessary in view of the...
New COVID-19 variant in Britain currently has no significant impact on vaccines, says WHODespite a number of mutations so far of the Covid-19, none of them, including the new mutant variant found in the UK, has made a significan...
New coronavirus strain spreading in UK has key mutations: ScientistsBritish scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 ...