Mutant Virus

When they harvested the organs of the dead animal, they found the virus had accumulated in the heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, stomach, intestines and brain tissues.

As India reports nearly three lakh cases and over 2,000 deaths in 24 hours, the biggest jump since the pandemic erupted, a new mutation in the COVID virus has emerged as the new challenge.

Strains of the Covid virus in India with "double mutations" have been found in patients in 10 states and this could be responsible for rising infections and a faster spread in these states, top sources in the Union Health Ministry told NDTV.

When Bette Korber, a biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spotted the first significant mutation in the Covid-19 virus last spring, some scientists were skeptical.

The government today denied that strains of the Covid virus in India with double mutations were responsible for more severe infections and a faster spread.

Alarm bells over a fresh spike in Covid cases in India - 1.35 lakh have been reported in the past 72 hours and the active caseload has increased for a 14th straight day - began ringing Wednesday as the government said a new "double mutant variant" of the virus had been detected in 18 states

The United Kingdom, South African and Brazilian variants of the novel coronavirus have infected 795 people - up from 400 on March 18 - in India so far, the Health Ministry said Tuesday afternoon

There is nothing to stop the second wave of Covid-19 in India from being as severe as the first unless people follow appropriate behaviour and are quickly vaccinated, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) chief Dr Randeep Guleria has warned. The recent spike in infections is likely being caused by slip-ups in precautionary measures and va...

Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto said safety of Japanese citizens "is the top priority" even as a decision remains pending on allowing overseas fans at Olympics.

800 to 900 samples from Maharashtra and Kerala - two of the five states that have seen a rise in coronavirus cases in the recent days - have been sent for genome sequencing in the last one month, top sources in the Union Health Ministry said. This comes amid fear of the mutant strains of the virus.

Preliminary research shows the two vaccines against COVID-19 approved in India are effective against the UK variant of the novel coronavirus but there is no data on their efficacy against the South African and Brazilian mutants detected in the country.

Deficiency of a lung-protecting protein in the Caucasian population may have made Europe and North America more susceptible to the spread of a coronavirus variant as compared to Asia, suggests a study by Indian scientists which also reveals how mutant forms of the virus may find new ways to infect people.

Bharat Biotech said today that its coronavirus vaccine Covaxin has been found effective against the UK variant of the virus, which is considered 70 per cent more infectious than the Wuhan variety and is more lethal. In a tweet today, Bharat Biotech said "Covaxin effectively neutralises UK variants of SARS-CoV-2 reducing the possibility of mutant vi...

People who recover from COVID-19 are protected against the novel coronavirus for at least six months, and likely much longer, according to a study which says the immune system evolves long after the infection and may block even mutant forms of the virus such as the South African variant.

As India logged 16,375 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours - lowest in the country since June 25 (16,922) - the total number of new UK strain cases rose to 58. Twenty new cases were detected at Pune's National Institute of Virology - one of the 10 labs conducting genome sequencing of Covid swabs, the government said. As the coronavirus tally ...

When they harvested the organs of the dead animal, they found the virus had accumulated in the heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, stomach, intestines and brain tissues.

As India reports nearly three lakh cases and over 2,000 deaths in 24 hours, the biggest jump since the pandemic erupted, a new mutation in the COVID virus has emerged as the new challenge.

Strains of the Covid virus in India with "double mutations" have been found in patients in 10 states and this could be responsible for rising infections and a faster spread in these states, top sources in the Union Health Ministry told NDTV.

When Bette Korber, a biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spotted the first significant mutation in the Covid-19 virus last spring, some scientists were skeptical.

The government today denied that strains of the Covid virus in India with double mutations were responsible for more severe infections and a faster spread.

Alarm bells over a fresh spike in Covid cases in India - 1.35 lakh have been reported in the past 72 hours and the active caseload has increased for a 14th straight day - began ringing Wednesday as the government said a new "double mutant variant" of the virus had been detected in 18 states

The United Kingdom, South African and Brazilian variants of the novel coronavirus have infected 795 people - up from 400 on March 18 - in India so far, the Health Ministry said Tuesday afternoon

There is nothing to stop the second wave of Covid-19 in India from being as severe as the first unless people follow appropriate behaviour and are quickly vaccinated, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) chief Dr Randeep Guleria has warned. The recent spike in infections is likely being caused by slip-ups in precautionary measures and va...

Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto said safety of Japanese citizens "is the top priority" even as a decision remains pending on allowing overseas fans at Olympics.

800 to 900 samples from Maharashtra and Kerala - two of the five states that have seen a rise in coronavirus cases in the recent days - have been sent for genome sequencing in the last one month, top sources in the Union Health Ministry said. This comes amid fear of the mutant strains of the virus.

Preliminary research shows the two vaccines against COVID-19 approved in India are effective against the UK variant of the novel coronavirus but there is no data on their efficacy against the South African and Brazilian mutants detected in the country.

Deficiency of a lung-protecting protein in the Caucasian population may have made Europe and North America more susceptible to the spread of a coronavirus variant as compared to Asia, suggests a study by Indian scientists which also reveals how mutant forms of the virus may find new ways to infect people.

Bharat Biotech said today that its coronavirus vaccine Covaxin has been found effective against the UK variant of the virus, which is considered 70 per cent more infectious than the Wuhan variety and is more lethal. In a tweet today, Bharat Biotech said "Covaxin effectively neutralises UK variants of SARS-CoV-2 reducing the possibility of mutant vi...

People who recover from COVID-19 are protected against the novel coronavirus for at least six months, and likely much longer, according to a study which says the immune system evolves long after the infection and may block even mutant forms of the virus such as the South African variant.

As India logged 16,375 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours - lowest in the country since June 25 (16,922) - the total number of new UK strain cases rose to 58. Twenty new cases were detected at Pune's National Institute of Virology - one of the 10 labs conducting genome sequencing of Covid swabs, the government said. As the coronavirus tally ...