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Is Hantavirus the next COVID-like threat? Experts explain the real risks & warning signs you should never ignoreHantavirus Outbreak: A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sparks Covid-19 comparisons. Experts clarify hantavirus is distinct, with limit...12 May, 2026, 06.50 PM IST- BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant symptoms: How is it different from previous COVID strains, should you be worried?New Covid variant 2026 Cicada symptoms: The highly mutated new BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant has now spread to at least 23 countries, sparkin...31 Mar, 2026, 04.45 PM IST
- Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There's one key problemA vaccine targeting Omicron will increase immunity to the variant on both an individual and population level.25 Jan, 2022, 10.44 AM IST
- View: To vaccinate the world, we need to look beyond mRNAAccelerating global vaccinations is the only way to ensure we don’t ruin 2022 or 2023 with yet worse variants.11 Jan, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
- Why COVID boosters weren't tweaked to better match variantsVaccines used in the U.S. remain strongly effective against hospitalization and death from COVID-19, even after the delta variant took over...18 Oct, 2021, 10.37 PM IST
- COVID-19 vaccines effective against most SARS-CoV-2 variants, says studyThe results come as an increase in so-called "breakthrough" infections caused by the Delta variant among vaccinated individuals continues t...12 Oct, 2021, 04.35 PM IST
- What's the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?If Mu was truly a really bad variant, we would have expected to have started to see indications of this, and we haven't yet.03 Sep, 2021, 12.01 PM IST
- Vaccines could affect how the coronavirus evolves - but that's no reason to skip your shotIn 2015, my collaborators and I published a scientific paper about a chicken virus you have likely never heard of. At the time, it got some...27 Aug, 2021, 06.59 PM IST
- Study finds lower antibody activity against delta variant at single dose, but vaccines still workThis virus has spread to at least 90 countries and is 50% more transmissible than the alpha variant (the variant first identified in Kent),...22 Jul, 2021, 01.48 PM IST
- 2 vaccine doses ‘highly effective' in reducing Delta variant hospitalisation: UK analysisPublic Health England (PHE), which has been conducting regular analysis of COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC), said on Monday that the late...15 Jun, 2021, 04.37 PM IST
- Factors that led to renaming of coronavirus variants, including the one first found in IndiaThe WHO list has four "variants of concern". They were commonly being referred to as the UK, South Africa, Brazil and India variants. From ...01 Jun, 2021, 02.26 PM IST
- WHO names COVID-19 variants 1st found in India as 'Kappa' and 'Delta'Apart from the B.1.617.2 variant, the B.1.1.7 strain first identified in the United Kingdom has been identified as 'Alpha variant'. The VOC...01 Jun, 2021, 11.13 AM IST
- What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?Boston-based pharmaceutical company Moderna announced a new supply agreement with Australia for 25 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. T...16 May, 2021, 01.23 PM IST
- Are vaccines variant-proof? Here’s some good newsModerna Inc. has also noted, though not published data, that its new mRNA-1273.351 vaccine was able to boost the immune response of previou...19 Apr, 2021, 08.01 PM IST
- View: Steps that will help us blunt the impact of Covid's second waveThree variants of concern have been recognised by WHO, the UK variant (B.1.1.7), the Brazilian variant P1, and the South African variant B....19 Apr, 2021, 10.35 AM IST
- Pfizer-BioNTech say Covid vaccine works against UK, South Africa variantsWhile the findings indicated no need for a new vaccine to tackle the new strains, Pfizer and BioNTech said they would respond if there was ...28 Jan, 2021, 02.03 PM IST
- 'Next-gen' COVID-19 vaccines may be needed to tackle emerging variants, say scientistsWork on vaccines will have to continue on parallel tracks - one to tackle the SARS-CoV-2 virus with first generation vaccines and the other...28 Jan, 2021, 12.09 PM IST
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