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Omicron XBB variant

14 Oct 2022

Baat Pate Ki : New variant of Corona raises concerns

Now a new variant of Corona has raised concern. Actually a new variant of Corona has been found XBB. This variant is made up of 2 variants of Omicron. The XBB variant has been found for the first time in Singapore and the US.

Covid-19 fourth wave

07 Jul 2022

Covid fourth wave threat! Yes, BA.2.75 Omicron sub-variant found in India: WHO

Covid-19 fourth wave: Earlier, an Israeli expert claimed that a new sub-variant of Omicron, which may be alarming has been found in 10 Indian states.

Global COVID cases

14 Apr 2022

Worldwide COVID cases surpass 500 million as Omicron variant BA.2 surges

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 500 million on Thursday. Highly contagious BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron surges in many countries in Europe and Asia. New cases are rising in 20 out of more than 240 countries and territories tracked.

27 Jan 2022

Future Covid variants to be more contagious, warns WHO

According to Dr Mike Ryan, WHO's director of emergency programmes, the virus will continue to evolve before it settles into a pattern.

02 Dec 2021

Omicron scare: Here’s how airports are gearing up to tackle new COVID variant

The Delhi international airport has made arrangements to accommodate at the airport up to 1,500 international passengers at a time. BMC mandated all domestic passengers landing at the city airport to carry a negative RT-PCR report not older than 72 hours. The Karnataka government directed the official to test all the international passengers arriving in the state.

new COVID variant

26 Nov 2021

UK suspends flights to 6 African countries as new COVID variant emerges

UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced a temporary suspension of flights from six countries A new COVID variant with more than 30 mutations is spreading in South Africa, according to reports

19 Sep 2021

Antibodies from COVID's original strain don't bind to variants: Study

The spike protein is the target of most vaccines Even though this antibody response is very common with the original strain, it doesn't really interact with variants

11 Jul 2021

Nonagenarian woman infected with both Alpha, Beta COVID variants dies

This is one of the first documented cases of co-infection with two SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern The presence of two different strains of the virus -- Alpha (B117), which originated in the UK, and Beta (B1351), first detected in South Africa was detected in the 90 years old patient

covid-19 pandemic

03 Jul 2021

Second COVID-19 wave witnessed significantly higher mortality rate: ICMR study

India witnessed the start of the second wave with a surge of cases in March 2021 Data collected from both waves were compared for analysis The most common symptom was fever in both the waves

01 Jul 2021

How COVID variants turns more infectious, antibody resistant

Changes on the spike protein of the virus determine its transmissibility -- how far and quickly it spreads By building a skeleton of the spike, we could see how the spike is moving, and how this movement changes with mutations

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