Aug 19, 2023, at 03:16 pm
Scientists are tracking a highly mutated variant of the virus which causes COVID-19 to understand the extent it can spread or the manner in which it can react against human immunity.
Dec 03, 2022, at 11:24 pm
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has once again alerted lapses in strategies to tackle Covid-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a "deadly new variant" to emerge.
Amid fears over new COVID variant, India registers 8,318 fresh cases
Nov 27, 2021, at 04:17 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India registered 8,318 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday amid concerns over a new variant called Omicron.
WHO classifies new COVID strain as 'variant of concern', names it 'Omicron'
Nov 27, 2021, at 02:28 pm
Geneva/IBNS: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the recently-detected B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19 as a variant of concern and named it as Omicron.
Moderna studies two booster candidates to anticipate new variant-like mutations
Nov 27, 2021, at 02:07 pm
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: American pharma company Moderna said on Friday it is studying two booster candidates designed to anticipate mutations similar to the Omicron COVID-19 variant discovered in South Africa this week.
Belgium detects Europe's first case of new COVID variant
Nov 27, 2021, at 04:39 am
Brussels/IBNS: Belgium on Friday detected its first case of the new variant of COVID-19, which also marks the first infection in Europe, media reports said.
New coronavirus strain found by virologists in Pune : Report
Jun 09, 2021, at 08:26 am
Pune/IBNS: A new coronavirus variant has been detected by National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune in two people travelling from Brazil.
India's Covid cases have peaked, reflects Cambridge tracker: Report
May 12, 2021, at 08:01 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The coronavirus infections in India have reached the peak according to a tracker developed by the researchers at Cambridge Judge Business School and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said a Bloomberg report.
UK coronavirus variant could be more lethal: Study
Mar 11, 2021, at 06:39 am
London/Sputnik: A variant of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that was first identified in southeast England in September is not only highly contagious but also seems to be more lethal than other COVID-19 strains circulating in the UK, new research published on Wednesday has found.
India records lowest daily rise of Covid-19 cases in nearly 6 months
Dec 27, 2020, at 05:01 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India's fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours stood at 18,732, the lowest daily rise in nearly six months.