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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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COVID-19: Chinese virologist says Fauci emails prove her Wuhan lab leak cl
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 5 (ANI): A Chinese virologist, who was among the first to suggest the COVID-19 virus leaked from a Wuhan lab, said that US top coronavirus advisor Anthony Fauci's emails prove that she was right all along.
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Import vaccines to ramp up vaccination against COVID-19, says Dr Gagandeep
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): India should get more COVID-19 vaccine doses through import but globally there is a vaccine shortage and the option with the government is to buy Russian or Chinese vaccines, says Dr Gagandeep Kang, a top virologist.
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Deaths a 'lagging indicator' of Covid-19 , will stabilise soon: Dr Gagande
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Vellore (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 25 (ANI): India's leading virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang has said that since the number of Covid-19 cases in the country has stabilized now, the number of deaths due to the virus will also stabilize soon and if it fails to do so then it can only point to an is
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Evidence shows COVID-19 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab, from
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wa
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Senior virologist Shahid Jameel quits as Chairman of Centre's Covid genome
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of cir
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More COVID cases should be tested for genome sequencing, says virologist
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): With the cases of the new variant of the strain of coronavirus having gone up to 25 in India, a Delhi-based virologist has suggested that there should be more genome sequencing of positive cases.
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Coronavirus was made in Wuhan lab, claims Chinese virologist
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): In a stunning revelation, a Chinese virologist has claimed that the coronavirus was created in a government-controlled laboratory in Wuhan, the original epicentre of the outbreak and offered scientific evidence to back her claims.
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Moscow State University eyeing dual vaccine against COVID-19, flu: Virolog
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Virologists at the Moscow State University (MSU) are studying the efficacy of developing a seasonal vaccine to battle both COVID-19 and the flu simultaneously, Professor Olga Karpova, the head of the Virology Department of the Biological Faculty at t
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Production of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine to launch no earlier than fall: Vi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 13 (Sputnik/ANI): The industrial production of a coronavirus vaccine in Russia can be expected in the fall at the earliest, albeit forecasting a definite time frame is still premature, Sputnik has learned from Mikhail Schelkanov, the head of the microbe ecology lab at t
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Virologist who fled to US from Hong Kong accuses China of coronavirus cove
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 11 (ANI): At a time when COVID-19 has infected over 12 million people across the globe, a scientist from Hong Kong has revealed that China knew about the deadly virus well before it claimed it did, in an extraordinary claim about cover-ups at the highest levels of government.
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Still no breakthrough in early tests for coronavirus: German virologist
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Mar 27 (Xinhua/ANI): A German virologist said on Thursday there was still no breakthrough for early coronavirus tests and warned that existing methods could show wrong results.
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