Hong 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...

After successfully containing the coronavirus for most of last year, Vietnam is now battling an outbreak that is spreading more quickly.

According 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...

"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...

The 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...

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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...

ICMR Director-General Balram Bhargava said that mutations are sporadic and single mutations are not found to be dominant in any particular ...

The study confirms findings that D614G, one of the mutations, makes the virus more transmissible.

On Tuesday, the Health Ministry said four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the ...

According to the scientists, including those from the University of Texas in the US, these variants have a substitution of the amino acid b...

"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 ...

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Several countries, including Britain which has found the mutant variant in cases linked to South Africa, have banned flights from South Afr...

More than 40 countries, including India, have banned travel to and from the UK, a move several scientists said was necessary in view of the...

Despite 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...

British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 ...