Coronavirus Mutant Strain
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Omicron: All about 'highly transmissible' South Africa Covid variant that has put India on alert
India | November 27, 2021 17:10 ISTOmicron: A newly identified COVID-19 variant --- B.1.1.529 --- is causing an increase in new COVID-19 infections in South Africa alerting several countries, including India and the United Kingdom.
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Covid 3rd wave coming? 17 cases of Delta variant AY.4.2 reported in India
India | October 28, 2021 13:50 ISTA sub-lineage of the Delta variant of COVID-19, AY.4.2, has been detected in the United Kingdom, China, and Russia, and now it has made its way to India.
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WHO says monitoring new Covid variant named 'Mu' which shows signs of vaccine resistance
World | September 01, 2021 15:36 ISTThe new variant 'Mu' has mutations that indicate a risk of resistance to vaccines and stressed that further studies were needed to better understand it, said WHO.
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Assam: Woman doctor infected with Alpha, Delta variants of COVID simultaneously
India | July 21, 2021 14:04 ISTThe doctor, despite being fully vaccinated, got infected with both Alpha and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2, and the RMRC lab detected the double infection in the patient in May.
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Covaxin effectively neutralises both Alpha, Delta variants of Covid-19
World | June 30, 2021 9:16 ISTThe top health research institute said that an adjuvant developed with funding from the NIH has contributed to the success of the "highly efficacious" COVAXIN COVID-19 vaccine, which roughly 25 million people have received to date in India and elsewhere.
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Indian COVID-19 variant matter of global concern, detected in 44 countries: WHO
India | May 12, 2021 14:01 ISTThe UN body routinely assesses if variants of SARS-CoV-2 result in changes in transmissibility and severity, or if they lead to changes in public health and social measures'' implementation by national health authorities.
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WHO classifies Indian Covid strain as 'variant of concern'
World | May 10, 2021 23:28 ISTThe B-1617 variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, has been classified as a “variant of concern” at the global level by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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COVID-19 Indian variant spreads to neighbouring countries; detected in Lanka, Bangladesh
India | May 09, 2021 9:26 ISTThe B.1.617 variant of SARS-CoV2 or the 'Indian strain', feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India, has been designated as the Variants of Interest (VOI) by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN health agency said in its weekly epidemiological update last month.
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Kerala reports 41,971 COVID-19 cases; pathogen strain more virulent, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan
India | May 09, 2021 8:57 ISTThe state was facing more challenges in the present second wave, as the pathogen strain was more virulent and was spreading fast, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters here.
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N440K variant fades as B1617 picks up, say scientists on COVID-19 second wave
Science | May 05, 2021 13:52 ISTDismissing media reports that N440K is the variant causing chaos in Visakhapatnam and other parts of Andhra Pradesh, Divya Tej Sowpati a scientist at CCMB said while N440K was indeed a mutation of concern in South India during and after the first wave, current data show it is replaced by new variants such as B1617 and B117.
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Covid's Andhra strain N440K several times more virulent - What experts say
India | May 04, 2021 19:57 ISTAs per reports, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Advisor Rakesh Mishra said that the N440K strain which was present in the samples of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana will fade away soon.
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Can alternative medicine systems like Ayurveda be tapped to fight Covid-19?
Health | April 29, 2021 17:44 ISTWith the pandemic threatening to stay longer, it is felt that other medicine systems should be explored to curb its spread to help the nation and its people get back on track faster.
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India's double mutant Covid variant found in 17 countries: WHO
World | April 28, 2021 16:33 ISTUp till April 27, B1617 variant had been detected in over 1,200 sequences uploaded on the open-access database GISAID (the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data) "from at least 17 countries", the global health agency said in its weekly epidemiological update on the pandemic.
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Of 15,000 virus sequences, 11% comprise of UK, SA and Brazil VOCs; B.1.1.7 dominates in India
India | April 25, 2021 13:56 ISTOn March second week in Delhi 28 per cent of samples had the UK variant and in the fourth week of March the percentage scaled up to 50 per cent, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) data reveals.
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Scientists discover possible new coronavirus mutation in Brazil
Science | March 14, 2021 6:58 ISTA possible new variant of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been detected in several regions of Brazil, the Ministry of Science and Technology's National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) said.
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Brazil variant of coronavirus neutralised by Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, says lab study
World | March 09, 2021 10:59 ISTPfizer has said it believes its current vaccine is highly likely to still protect against the South African variant.
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Bengal reports 3 cases of UK's COVID-19 strain, one of Brazilian variant
India | March 07, 2021 7:37 ISTBengal currently has 3,213 active cases. As many as 19,665 samples were tested in the state over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of such clinical examinations to 86,78,594.
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More contagious Brazilian virus variant emerges in Oregon; can infect those vaccinated
World | March 03, 2021 7:42 ISTThe variant, which was first found in Manaus, Brazil, appears to be more contagious than other COVID-19 strains. It can potentially be contracted by someone who was already infected or who has been vaccinated.
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Over 7k coronavirus mutations in India, many have serious risks: Scientist
Science | February 23, 2021 6:56 ISTThere are more than 7,000 coronavirus mutations in India of which some could pose a serious risk, a senior scientist said on Monday. Rakesh Mishra, Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, said among the variants, N440K is spreading a lot more in the southern states.
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COVID variant N440K spreading more in southern states: CSIR-CCMB
India | February 20, 2021 7:51 ISTThe Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) said there is emerging evidence that coronavirus variant N440K is spreading "a lot more" in southern states in the country.
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