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WHO has not associated the term 'Indian Variant' with B.1.617 Covid strain
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): The Government of India (GoI) on Wednesday clarified that World Health Organization (WHO) has not associated the term "Indian Variant" with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in its weekly epidemiological update on the pandemic.
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WHO urges all to refer virus variants by their scientific names
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): After several media reports referred to B.1.617 variant as 'Indian Variant', the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday clarified that it does not identify viruses or variants with names of countries they are first reported from.
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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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FIR lodged against Chandrababu Naidu for creating fear over N440K strain o
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 11 (ANI): An FIR has been registered against Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu at Guntur's Arundalpet police station for allegedly causing fear among people about N440K variant of novel coronavirus.
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India's focus must be how to come out of current COVID crisis, says Canadi
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): High Commissioner of Canada to India, Nadir Patel on Tuesday said that the focus should not be on the rise in coronavirus cases in India due to the B1617 virus variant rather on how to assist to address this situation so that the crisis is mitigated.
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Vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics continue to be effective against In
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that the vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics "continue to be effective" against the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19.
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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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Andhra Minister alleges TDP Chief Naidu of spreading false propaganda, ter
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 8 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Minister Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao on Friday accused Telgu Desham Party Chief Chandrababu Naidu of indulging in false propaganda about the presence of N440K variant strain in Kurnool and said that Naidu is a 'virus named CBN 4
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DRDO's anti-COVID 2-DG drug effective against different variants: DRDO sci
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)'s new anti-COVID drug, just approved by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) is effective against different variants of the coronavirus and helps in bringing patients out of oxygen support, sa
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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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Chandrababu Naidu calls for immediate universal COVID-19 vaccination
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 8 (ANI): TDP chief and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday expressed concern that one by one, all sections of society were becoming vulnerable to COVID-19 because of the "emergence of more dangerous variants" in due course.
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