delta variant of coronavirus

India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 101,278 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 2,004,333. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at…

India on Sunday reported a net increase of 73,840 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 2,187,205. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at…

A senior epidemiologist at AIIMS who is the principal investigator of Covaxin trials for adults and children at the institute on Sunday termed the Centre's decision to…

Amid fears of the Omicron variant virus spreading rapidly across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that vaccinations for children aged between 15-18,…

On Saturday, in an address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will be opening its vaccination for children aged 15 and over. The prime…

Ever since South Africa announced on November 25, 2021 that it had detected the new, highly mutated B.1.1.529 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19,…

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,…

Earlier studies on the variant had also found the variant to be not only more lethal but also rapidly transmissible.Patients of Coronavirus infected by its Delta variant are at double the risk of hospitalisation in comparison to those…