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Whether Delta Plus evades pre-existing immunity better than Delta or Beta
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): As the coronavirus Delta variant B.1.617.2 has further mutated to 'Delta plus', virologists are concerned whether this new variant will evade pre-existing immunity better than either Delta or Beta.
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Anil Vij releases comic book to spread awareness about COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], June 15 (ANI): Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday released IEC Comic - 'BACCHE, VAAYU and CORONA 6: Covid Variant Banaam Vaccine Yodha' to spread awareness about COVID-19 vaccine and immunisation among parents and children.
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B.1.617.2 variant of COVID-19 is infectious, may become dominant in other
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The variant of COVID-19 first identified in India - B.1.617.2 - is infectious and there are chances that this variant may become dominant in other countries, a senior scientist has said.
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Vaccines effective in combating mutated Covid variants, protecting benefic
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): With several cases of Covid-19 infections being reported after partial or full vaccinations, concerns have been raised on the efficacy of vaccination against the mutated variants of the novel coronavirus.
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Germany bars visitors from Britain, N Ireland over Covid variants of conce
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], May 22 (ANI): Travellers from Britain and Northern Ireland will be barred from Sunday from entering Germany, which has classified the United Kingdom as a Covid-19 virus variant area of concern region.
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Singapore satisfied with India's response on Kejriwal's 'dangerous COVID v
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Singapore High Commissioner to India, Simon Wong on Wednesday said that they would wish to put an end to the episode where Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made "irresponsible" remarks over Singapore COVID-19 variant, adding that they were happy with the
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Kejriwal urges Centre to suspend air services with Singapore, priortise va
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Amid concerns of a third wave of COVID-19 in the country, which according to many heath experts is likely to target children, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said a new COVID variant detected in Singapore is said to be deadly for children a
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No specialised kits to detect, Pak denies presence of B.1.617 Covid varian
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 18 (ANI): Pakistan has officially denied that the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus has entered the country, despite experts noting that it does not have specialised kits to detect the highly contagious COVID-19 mutation.
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Pfizer, Moderna vaccines effective against Covid variants found in India:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 18, (ANI): The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines appear to protect against COVID variants B.1.617 and B.1.618 first identified in India, researchers have reported in a new pre-print paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, CNN reported.
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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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South African coronavirus variant detected in California for first time
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
California [US], February 11 (ANI): Two cases of coronavirus strains first detected in South Africa have been reported in the US State of California, said Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday (local time).
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Philippines detects 8 more cases of new coronavirus strain
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Manila [Philippines], February 5 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines has detected an additional eight cases of the more contagious coronavirus variant first found in Britain, bringing the total confirmed cases of the new strain in the country to 25.
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