coronavirus delta variant

A BMC health worker collects swab sample of an outstation passenger for Covid test, at CSMT railway station, in Mumbai (Photo: PTI) Latest Live News updates: The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that the more…

Agrawal further said that a good part about the vaccine was their ability to reduce the severity of the infection by several notches among the patients.A recent study has shown what was long feared about the Delta variant of Coronavirus,…

Recent epidemiological research has found the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant to be 40 per cent more contagious than the Alpha variantReduced vaccine efficiency and high infectiousness during the pre-symptomatic phase are leading to rapid…

University of Oxford and Office for National Statistics researchers conducted the study, the results of which were published in a pre-printThe effectiveness of Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against the Delta variant of the…

INSACOG is a consortium of 28 genome sequencing laboratories carrying out sequencing and analysis of the Covid-19 virus to understand the spread and evolution of the SARS CoV-2, its mutations and resulting variants as well as ascertaining…

The hundreds of millions of doses promised by countries including Britain, the U.S. and others are not likely to arrive anytime soon. (File image)The head of the World Health Organization said the COVID-19 delta variant, first seen in…

The Delta variant is the name given to strain B.1.617.2 of the coronavirus and it has been classified as a variant of concern by global health agency WHO and by IndiaSputnik V vaccine for coronavirus: Sputnik V vaccine to get a version for…

SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus which has 30,000 base pairs of amino acids, and an alteration in any of these base can lead to a mutation in the virusCoronavirus Delta variant: The Public Health England (PHE) has said in its latest risk…