Delta Covid-19 variant

New Delhi : With 410 fresh Omicron infections detected in the last 24 hours, the national tally of this highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus has climbed to 4,033. Of the total, 1,552 people have recovered from the new strain…

London : German researchers are set to study how far rapid antigen tests are able to detect the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19, media reports said."We do not know exactly how well these tests work for Omicron," health…

New Delhi : After a scientist in Cyprus claimed that his team has identified a new Covid variant being dubbed as 'Deltacron', a UK-based virologist has termed it a "lab contamination" and not a new strain.Tom Peacock, a virologist at the…

Varanasi : A team of researchers at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have discovered that multiple genetic mutations could be responsible for the Covid-19 susceptibility in India.The team led by Professor Gyaneshwer Chaubey analysed the…

New Delhi : IANS India got a helping hand from Iran to transport humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan .As External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar had a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the…

London : The emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant could be "first ray of light" that in the future there may be a less severe coronavirus variant that is similar to the common cold, according to a UK scientist.According to…

London : An algorithm that can accurately predict the risk of developing severe complications due to Covid-19, including hospitalisation and death, has been developed by Dutch researchers.The algorithm can be applied to identify persons…

New Delhi : Cyprus has detected a new variant dubbed as "Deltacron", that has a similar genetic background to the Delta variant, coupled with 10 mutations from Omicron.The variant has already affected 25 people in Cyprus.According to Dr…

New York : Women vaccinated against Covid-19 transfer SARS-CoV-2 antibodies to their breastfed infants, potentially giving their babies passive immunity against the coronavirus, according to a new research that encourages lactating women to…

Paris : The Omicron Covid-19 variant may be 105 per cent more transmissible than Delta, according to a research by French scientists.The study, published on the medRxiv site and yet to be peer-reviewed, analysed 131,478 tests in France from…