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Delhi CM does not speak for India, says Jaishankar on Kejriwal's 'new Sing
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday reprimanded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his claims of "new Singapore COVID-19 variant" alarm and said "Delhi CM does not speak for India".
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Kejriwal's 'new COVID-19 variant' claim denied by Singapore health ministr
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's claim over 'new Singapore COVID-19 variant', has been strongly refuted by the Singapore government and the Indian Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
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No truth in claims of new COVID-19 variant in country: Singapore's Ministr
Updated : 4 years, 10 months 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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16 COVID-19 variants found active in Uttarakhand, says state health dept
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 17 (ANI): At least 16 variants of coronavirus have been found active in Uttarakhand, according to a report of samples sent by the state government for genome sequencing for the virus.
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COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, likely to dominate in UK: Eng
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 15 (ANI): The B.1.617.2 variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, is likely to take over and dominate in the United Kingdom, said England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty on Friday.
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Global airport traffic rebounds but full recovery years away: Fitch
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [USA], May 13 (ANI): Airport traffic is rebounding off of pandemic troughs in most countries though Fitch Ratings' latest quarterly Global Airport Tracker report says the proverbial runway to normal will not be in sight for years.
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COVID-19: European Commission calls on EU member states to temporarily res
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 13 (ANI): The European Commission on Wednesday called on the EU Member States to take coordinated action to further restrict travel from India on a temporary basis, with a view to limiting the spread of the B.1.617.2 variant, first detected in India.
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WHO confirms COVID-19 variant B.1.617 has three sub-lineages
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 12 (ANI): COVID-19 variant B.1.617, which was first identified in India last year and has been classified as a variant of global concern, has three sub-lineages, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official informed on Wednesday.
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Covid-19 variant B.1.617 first found in India, detected in 44 countries, s
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 12 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday informed that the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, first found in India in October last year, had been detected in sequences uploaded "from 44 countries in all six WHO regions".
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WHO classifies B1617 COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, as varia
Updated : 4 years, 10 months 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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Will ban on Indians impact Malaysia's electronics industry?
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Singapore, May 10 (ANI): As COVID-19 cases soared in India and its neighbouring countries, Malaysia last Wednesday (May 5) announced a temporary entry ban on citizens of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal. It had earlier on April 28 stopped flights to and from India in an attempt to p
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SAJA advises news organisations against using 'India variant' term for new
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], May 8 (ANI): The South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) is advising news organisations against using the term 'India variant' or 'Indian variant', while describing the new strain of COVID-19 that reportedly originated out of India.
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