B.1.617 Variant

Congress's Shashi Tharoor should be disqualified as a member of Parliament for using the term "Indian variant" for the India-dominant B.1.617 strain of the coronavirus, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has said in a letter to the Speaker.

A police case has been registered against former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and Congress chief Minister Kamal Nath for his remarks that tagged the B.1.617 Covid variant as the "Indian Variant".

The IT ministry in a letter issued on Friday has asked all social media companies to remove down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 11 that the coronavirus variant B.1.617, first identified in India last year, was being classified as a variant of global concern.

Coronavirus: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri on Tuesday evening reminded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that international passenger flights to and from India have been suspended - with some exceptions - since March last year

COVID-19 vaccines that are available in the United States are effective against the deadly variant that was first detected in India, top US health officials said on Tuesday.

The efficacy of coronavirus vaccines may be reduced against the virus variant dominant in India but they can still offer protection against severe conditions linked to COVID-19, one of the country's top experts in genomics said on Friday.

The gap between two Covishield doses can be increased to 12 to 16 weeks from the current six-eight weeks, the government said today, accepting the recommendation of experts.

New strains of the Covid variant found in India are deadlier and more infectious, the World Health Organisation has said on the country's coronavirus situation in a weekly update.

The government today objected to the labelling of the B.1.617 Covid variant as an "Indian variant", stressing that the word "Indian" was never used by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

If you haven't heard of B.1.617 yet, chances are you soon will.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that the vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics "continue to be effective" against the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19.

Sri Lanka on Saturday detected its first case of the Indian variant of coronavirus, also known as B.1.617, in a person who recently returned from India and was in a quarantine centre here.

The B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus, also known as the double mutant, is fast replacing the N440K variant in south India, scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) said on Tuesday.

The 'Indian strain' of the coronavirus, known as B.1.617 or a 'double mutant', has been found in at least 17 countries, the WHO said, as the world grapples to contain the surge in the COVID-19 cases with 5.7 million infections detected last week.

Covaxin, India's home-grown Covid vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech, has been found to neutralise the B.1.617 variant or the Indian double mutant strain, White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday.

Congress's Shashi Tharoor should be disqualified as a member of Parliament for using the term "Indian variant" for the India-dominant B.1.617 strain of the coronavirus, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has said in a letter to the Speaker.

A police case has been registered against former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and Congress chief Minister Kamal Nath for his remarks that tagged the B.1.617 Covid variant as the "Indian Variant".

The IT ministry in a letter issued on Friday has asked all social media companies to remove down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 11 that the coronavirus variant B.1.617, first identified in India last year, was being classified as a variant of global concern.

Coronavirus: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri on Tuesday evening reminded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that international passenger flights to and from India have been suspended - with some exceptions - since March last year

COVID-19 vaccines that are available in the United States are effective against the deadly variant that was first detected in India, top US health officials said on Tuesday.

The efficacy of coronavirus vaccines may be reduced against the virus variant dominant in India but they can still offer protection against severe conditions linked to COVID-19, one of the country's top experts in genomics said on Friday.

The gap between two Covishield doses can be increased to 12 to 16 weeks from the current six-eight weeks, the government said today, accepting the recommendation of experts.

New strains of the Covid variant found in India are deadlier and more infectious, the World Health Organisation has said on the country's coronavirus situation in a weekly update.

The government today objected to the labelling of the B.1.617 Covid variant as an "Indian variant", stressing that the word "Indian" was never used by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

If you haven't heard of B.1.617 yet, chances are you soon will.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that the vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics "continue to be effective" against the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19.

Sri Lanka on Saturday detected its first case of the Indian variant of coronavirus, also known as B.1.617, in a person who recently returned from India and was in a quarantine centre here.

The B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus, also known as the double mutant, is fast replacing the N440K variant in south India, scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) said on Tuesday.

The 'Indian strain' of the coronavirus, known as B.1.617 or a 'double mutant', has been found in at least 17 countries, the WHO said, as the world grapples to contain the surge in the COVID-19 cases with 5.7 million infections detected last week.

Covaxin, India's home-grown Covid vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech, has been found to neutralise the B.1.617 variant or the Indian double mutant strain, White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday.