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New COVID variant B.1.640 not a threat yet: WHO

Jan 07, 2022, at 11:43 pm

Geneva/UNI/Xinhua: The new COVID variant called B.1.640 being monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO) is not "circulating widely at the moment" and has so far been identified in less than one percent of the samples sequenced in France, WHO experts said here on Thursday.

Highly infectious C.1.2 Covid variant becomes new cause of worry

Sep 03, 2021, at 03:16 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The emergence of new C.1.2 Covid variant, found in South Africa, has caused fresh worry while the Delta variant of the virus continues to wreak havoc in many countries.

Vaccines' effectiveness on Indian variant of Covid remains uncertain: WHO

May 14, 2021, at 04:44 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed uncertainty about the effectiveness of vaccines on the Indian variant of coronavirus, which it had already claimed to be deadlier and more infectious.