Delta Plus Covid19 Variant
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Maharashtra: 27 more test positive for Delta plus variant of Covid, tally reaches 128
India | Aug 23, 2021, 10:34 PM ISTWhile 128 patients are found infected with the Delta Plus, two were Alpha types, 24 were Kappa types, and the rest showing common Covid-19 virus infections.
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Pfizer, AstraZeneca Covid vaccines less effective against Delta variant: Oxford-led study
World | Aug 19, 2021, 01:20 PM ISTThe researchers, however, noted that with Delta, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca preventive, known as Covishield in India, still offer good protection against new infections.
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Maharashtra: 66 Delta plus cases reported so far; 5 of them dead
India | Aug 14, 2021, 12:01 AM ISTAmong the 66 patients, 10 had taken both doses of vaccines. Eight others had taken the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Two of these 18 people had taken Covaxin and 16 Covishield.
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Fully vaccinated Mumbai woman, infected with Delta plus variant, dies
India | Aug 12, 2021, 11:06 PM ISTA 63-year-old woman, infected with the Delta plus variant of Covid-19, died on Thursday. This is the first such death in the city.
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Maharashtra: Two Delta plus COVID-19 cases found in Gondia; contact tracing on
India | Aug 12, 2021, 08:48 PM ISTAs many as 105 swab samples collected from the district were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune in the last week of June for genome sequencing and two of them tested positive for the Delta plus variant, according to Dr Nitin Kapse, District Health Officer.
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Maharashtra: With 20 more patients, Delta Plus cases shoot up to 65
India | Aug 11, 2021, 08:59 PM ISTOf the fresh cases, the maximum - seven - are from Mumbai, followed by three from Pune, two each from Palghar, Raigad, Nanded, and Gondia, and one each from Akola and Chandrapur districts.
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Covaxin effective against Delta Plus variant of Covid-19: ICMR Study
India | Aug 02, 2021, 01:36 PM ISTICMR reveals that Covaxin is effective against the Delta Plus variant of COVID 19.
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Delta variant may spread as easily as chickenpox, cause more severe infection: Reports
World | Jul 30, 2021, 12:58 PM ISTThe document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines unpublished data that shows fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant, first identified in India, at the same rate as unvaccinated people.
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3rd COVID vaccine dose strongly boosts protection against Delta variant: Pfizer
World | Jul 29, 2021, 07:35 AM ISTAntibody levels against the Delta variant in people aged 18 to 55 who receive a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are greater than five-fold than following a second dose, according to data posted at the company's teleconference, Xinhua reported.
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Philippines records 4th death from Delta variant
World | Jul 26, 2021, 11:09 AM ISTDOH said that Philippines now has 119 Delta variant cases after detecting an additional 55 infections, reports Xinhua news agency.
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India's first COVID-19 patient tests positive for coronavirus again
India | Jul 13, 2021, 02:55 PM ISTA woman medico, who was India's first COVID-19 case, has tested positive again for the virus, health authorities said here on Tuesday.
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Delta variant ripping around the world at a scorching pace, driving new spike in cases, death: WHO
World | Jul 13, 2021, 09:36 AM ISTDelta variant is expected to soon be the dominant COVID-19 strain circulating worldwide, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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What is Kappa variant of coronavirus and how dangerous it is?
India | Jul 09, 2021, 06:50 PM ISTThe Kappa strain of coronavirus was detected during the genome sequencing exercise. Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said earlier also cases of this variant were found in the state.
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Kejriwal govt chalks out strategy to deal with possible third wave of Covid
India | Jul 09, 2021, 02:16 PM ISTThe Delhi govenment has prepared a 'Graded Response Action Plan' to deal with the possible third wave of Covid-19.
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2 Delta Plus cases confirmed in Uttar Pradesh
India | Jul 08, 2021, 10:20 AM ISTIn May this year, 100 samples were routinely sent to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, and reports were received earlier this week.
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US Covid cases rise as Delta strain dominates, Prez calls for ramping up vaccination
World | Jul 08, 2021, 01:47 PM ISTDelta, which was first found in India and is now in over 100 countries, represented 51.7 per cent of new infections in the US over the two weeks ending July 3, Xinhua news agency reported citing the CDC.
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Europe in COVID vaccination race against 'delta variant'
World | Jul 03, 2021, 01:12 PM ISTThe urgency coincides with Europe's summer holiday months, with fair weather bringing more social gatherings and govts reluctant to clamp down on them.
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Pfizer, J&J anti-COVID-19 vaccines more effective against Delta than Beta variant: S African experts
World | Jul 03, 2021, 10:06 AM ISTThe anti-COVID-19 vaccines by US pharma majors Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) that are being used in South Africa are more effective against the Delta variant of the coronavirus than the Beta strain, experts have said.
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Delta variant is dangerous and 'continuing to evolve and mutate': WHO chief
World | Jul 03, 2021, 10:02 AM ISTWHO DG Tedros Ghebreyesus said in countries with low vaccination coverage, terrible scenes of hospitals overflowing are again becoming the norm.
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Europe expected to be 'Delta dominant' by August, warns WHO
World | Jul 02, 2021, 03:48 PM IST"Last week, the number of cases rose by 10 per cent. This is taking place in the context of a rapidly evolving situation, a new variant of concern, the Delta variant, and in a region where despite tremendous efforts by the member states, millions remain unvaccinated," the WHO's Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge said at an online press conference in here on Thursday.