Is the Delta variant more dangerous?

The Delta variant is 50-60 per cent more transmissible than the Alpha variant which was 50-60 per cent more transmissable than the original …

New COVID-19 variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global ‘maximum suppression’

At least 3 documented SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern can reinfect recovered patients and vaccinated individuals 

WHO begins monitoring two new variants of COVID-19 named BA.4 and BA.5

The move comes in the footsteps of the global health body declaring two more variants in circulation named XE and XD

COVID-19: ‘India reports first cases of double mutations per sample, their impact not clear yet’

DTE had reported how India sequenced only 1% of total positive sampels, to which NCDC said: We have already achieved basic objectives

Caught in second COVID-19 wave? What signs of surge in new entrants mean

COVID-19 cases are being reported in large numbers from districts that had so far been mildly hit by the pandemic

Continued surveillance can help tweak vaccines for COVID-19 variants

Need to seamlessly connect vaccine development pipelines to variant identification and testing so that time can be saved while updating vaccines …

COVID-19: Govt contradicts ‘media report’ on genome sequencing but fails to clarify total numbers

On June 6, the government said revised strategy would detect new variants; on September 6, it said the first strategy had served the purpose

COVID-19: Beware of ‘Mexican variant’

Down To Earth speaks to Saumitra Das, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in West Bengal about the possible role of a …

World Health Assembly agrees for global treaty to ‘strengthen pandemic prevention’

An intergovernmental negotiating body will be responsible for drafting and negotiating a treaty under Article 19 of the World Health Organisation&…

Delta Plus a variant of concern: Centre disses own version

Delta Plus variant more transmissible, may cause potential reduction in monoclonal antibody therapy    

Government experts hint variants responsible for COVID-19 case surge in India

India is not going to sequence 5 per cent samples due to high caseload, says National Centre for Disease Control