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No truth in claims of new COVID-19 variant in country: Singapore's Ministr
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Singapore, May 19, (ANI): Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday said that there is no truth in the references in reports in a section of Indian media about the presence of a new variant of coronavirus in the country, adding that there is no "Singapore variant".
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WHO classifies B1617 COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, as varia
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): The coronavirus variant B1617 first identified in India last year has been classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official informed on Monday.
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COVID-19: ICC confident WTC final will go ahead as planned in June in UK
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dubai [UAE], April 19 (ANI): The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday said it is confident the World Test Championship (WTC) final between India and New Zealand will go ahead as planned in Southampton in June. This after UK put India to its travel "red list" on a precautionary basis
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UK to add India on COVID-19 travel 'red list'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], April 19 (ANI): The United Kingdom is adding India to its travel "red list" on a precautionary basis after reporting 103 cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India, health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday.
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Negative air passenger demand trend continues globally: IATA
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 8 (ANI): The total demand for air travel in February measured in revenue passenger kilometres was down 74.7 per cent compared to February 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.
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Canada's Ontario to begin 4-week COVID-19 state of emergency today
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Ontario [Canada], April 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Ontario is declaring a state of emergency and introducing a stay-at-home order effective Thursday amid an increase in coronavirus variant cases, Premier Doug Ford announced on Wednesday.
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Over 80 cases of British Covid-19 strain confirmed in Russia
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 6 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 80 cases of the British coronavirus variant have been registered in Russia, all of them are imported cases, Anna Popova, the head of the Russian public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said.
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US reports over 13,000 coronavirus variants infections
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 3 (ANI/Xinhua): The United States has recorded more than 13,000 infection cases of coronavirus variants, according to the latest data of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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771 cases of COVID-19 variants detected across 18 states
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): Amid the surge of COVID-19 cases in India, the Health Ministry on Wednesday informed that a total of 771 cases of coronavirus variants detected across 18 states in the country.
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Chinese vaccine CoronaVac might prove ineffective against Brazil's P1 COVI
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Sao Paulo [Brazil], March 11 (ANI): Amid an aggressive spread of the new COVID-19 strain from the Amazon in Brazil, a recent preliminary study has provided evidence that China's CoronaVac, the country's principal vaccine, might prove ineffective against the coronavirus variant.
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Karnataka reports first Covid-19 positive case of South Africa variant
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka), March 11 [India]: The first case of Covid-19 infection from the coronavirus variant from South Africa has been detected in Karnataka, the state health department said in its bulletin on Wednesday.
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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can protect against Brazil variant: Study
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 10 (ANI): A new study suggests that the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against the concerning coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.
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