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#Pakistan News Covid-19 has killed more than 3M people and infected over 146M others globally. Here are all the coronavirus-related developments for April 24: Shoppers walk along the street after the Swiss government relaxed some of its Covid-19 restrictions, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, at the ...

India's coronavirus cases continue to rise at an unprecedented rate, putting hospitals in a desperate situation and resulting in Canada clamping down on travel from the country. The surge is being attributed in part to a new variant that the World Health Organization says was first detected in India last ...

India has been officially added to the UK’s coronavirus travel red list, in response to mounting concern about soaring coronavirus cases in the country and the emergence of a new virus variant. It means that passengers on flights into the UK from India must now enter quarantine in a ...

India is battling a record-breaking rise in COVID-19 infections that has overwhelmed hospitals and led to severe bed and oxygen shortages. A key question is whether a new variant with potentially worrying mutations – B.1.617 – is behind what is currently the world’s fastest-growing outbreak, which added more than ...

The ‘double mutant’ variant: what we know and don’t know about the COVID-19 strain found in B.C., Alberta and Quebec | The Starn","heading":"","fullWindow":false,"fullBleed":false,"showFullBleedOnMobile":false,"headColor":"","type":"html5mobile","textColor":"","mobileImageUrl":"","bgColor":"","imageUrl":"","registeredOnly":false,"linkUrl":"","aodaTitle":"g","internalScroll":false,"displayStyle":"small-up"},{"text":"What makes B.1.617 a double mutant? ","type":"text","isParagraph":true},{"type":"ad","heading":"ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW","name":"ArticleThirdBigBox","display":"medium-down","pos":"3","interstitial":true,"sizes":]},{"text":"It’s not as science-fiction as it sounds. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true},{"text":"The B.1.617 variant first discovered in India, in the Maharashtra state where ...

With India’s daily tally of Covid-19 infections surging by records, public health experts worry that a new – possibly more virulent – coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people. The new variant, which has a so-called double mutation, is thought to ...

A coronavirus variant with possibly worrying mutations has now been found across the UK. A total of 77 cases of this variant were found in the country. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was due to visit the country for several days during the last week of April, but now the ...

The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available. 11 p.m.: As the airline industry continues to struggle with plummeting passenger volumes and no government bailout plan, Halifax-based Chorus Aviation Inc. announced ...

Scientists investigating the link between vitamin D and Covid outcomes say evidence is lacking that higher levels of the sunshine vitamin lower the risk of falling seriously ill with the disease.Researchers from Europe, Canada and Japan who analysed the records of more than 400,000 patients found “no evidence” to support the suggestion that higher ...