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JAMMU: As per the recent sequencing data analysis of positive COVID-19 patients received from NCDC, New Delhi, B.1.617 variant is responsible for the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Jammu Division.Principal & Dean Government Medical College, Jammu, Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma said that the Department of Microbiology at GMC, ...

SAGE says it's a 'realistic possibility' Indian variant could lead to 1,000 Covid deaths by summer  There is a 'realistic possibility' the Indian Covid variant is far more transmissible than the Kent strain and could lead to up to a thousand deaths a day by summer, the Government's scientists ...

NEW DELHI : The Government of India (GoI) on Wednesday clarified that World Health Organization (WHO) has not associated the term “Indian Variant” with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in its weekly epidemiological update on the pandemic.“This is to clarify that WHO has not associated the term “Indian ...

The Philippines has detected its first two cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, its health ministry said on Tuesday.The World Health Organziation has classified the coronavirus variant, known as B.1.617, as a variant of global concern with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily.For ...

Worldwide COVID-19 cases have exceeded 150 million, with the US, India and Brazil reporting the highest number of infections, according to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University.  The US on Friday reported a total of 32,288,689 cases with 575,193 deaths, India logged 18,376,524 cases with 204,832 deaths, and Brazil reported 14,590,678 infections with 401,186 deaths. India's jump ...

#Pakistan News Covid-19 has killed more than 3.1M people and infected over 150M others globally. Here are all the coronavirus-related developments for April 29: A man, wearing a protective face mask, walks past a closed restaurant in Paris amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic in France on April 29, ...

    New Delhi: Covaxin, India’s home-grown Covid vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech, has been found to neutralise the B.1.617 variant or the Indian double mutant strain, White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday.   “Now, this is something where we’re still gaining data on a daily ...

NEW DELHI — As India continues to grapple with an unrelenting second wave of COVID-19, some neighboring countries in South Asia are seeing their own surges in case numbers, prompting border closures and travel bans.India is now reporting approximately 1 million new coronavirus cases every three days, with the ...

India's coronavirus variant may not be fully to blame for the country's devastating second wave, according to scientists who say a 'perfect storm' of Covid complacency, a disregard for social distancing and lack of preparedness by the Government has fuelled the crisis. Doctors on the frontline claim the B.1.617 strain is ...

With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning.For the latest headlines, ...