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Japan to impose 10-day quarantine on travellers to India, 5 South Asian co
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 25 (ANI): Japan on Tuesday said it has extended the quarantine period for travelers who have recently been to India and five other South Asian countries amid growing concerns over B.1.617 Covid-19 variant.
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US not fully safe with vaccinations unless coronavirus variants curbed: US
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States is not assured of being fully safe from the coronavirus even with its high rate in vaccination unless it extends the global fight to defeat the variants from the scourge, US Agency for International Development (USAID) COVID-19 Task
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Indore: BJP demands sedition case against Kamal Nath for controversial rem
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 24 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Indore demanded that the city police register a sedition case against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress leader Kamal Nath over his controversial remarks about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Moderna CEO advocates 3rd vaccine dose to protect people at risk
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Vaccination with a booster shot among as many people as possible is a good way to protect those most at risk against ever-emerging new coronavirus variants, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said on Sunday.
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Kamal Nath doing cheap politics with 'Indian Covid' remark; Why is Sonia G
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 23 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan slammed Congress leader Kamal Nath's "Indian variant" of COVID-19 remark and questioned the silence of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
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Second Covid wave is affecting younger people more than older ones
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 23 (ANI): The second Covid-19 wave in the country has been much more devastating than the first with fast-spreading variants that seem to be infecting younger people.
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Remove content terming 'Indian variant': India tells social media intermed
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): India took a strong objection to the use of the term so-called 'Indian variant' for the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus on social media posts.
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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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Over 13,000 coronavirus variants detected in Russia, says vaccine develope
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Novosibirsk [Russia], May 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian scientists have already identified more than 13,000 coronavirus mutations, but most of them do not have any significant impact on the course of the pandemic, Rinat Maksyutov, the director of the Vector research center that developed the Epi
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PM afraid of 'Indian variant' of coronavirus, says Kamal Nath; BJP ministe
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 22 (ANI): Days after the BJP alleged "Congress toolkit" referred to the new mutant of coronavirus as "Indian variant", former Chief Minister and Congress leader Kamal Nath launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he is afr
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UK pushes forward "Global Pandemic Radar" to tackle COVID-19 variants
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 21 (ANI/Xinhua): British government Friday launched plans for a new "Global Pandemic Radar" to identify emerging COVID-19 variants and track new diseases around the world.
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Structural details of how SARS-CoV-2 variants escape immune response revea
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
California [US], May 21 (ANI): Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination. A new study by a team of researchers has revealed key details of how these
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