Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, described the removal of the sequencing data in a new paper posted online on bioRxiv on Tuesday.
The total cases of COVID-19 in India have now mounted to 3,01,34,445 with 6,12,868 active cases, the data showed. The total death toll in the country is now at 3,93,310.
2 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the first 72 hours of the implementation of the new revised guidelines of the National COVID Vaccination Programme, the ministry said.
The govt aims to administer at least the first doses of vaccine to 70 per cent of its population before mid-July, Koca said at a PC on Wednesday after a meeting of the coronavirus scientific board.
The level-3 alert, the second-highest in Taiwan's four-tier Covid-19 alert scale, was first imposed in Taipei and New Taipei on May 15, reports Xinhua news agency.
The total cases of COVID in India have now mounted to 3,00,82,778 with 6,27,057 active cases, the data showed.
New York State declared a state of emergency in early March of 2020 to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by PM Modi has approved allocation of additional foodgrain under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (Phase IV)- for another period of 5 months.
"In Mysuru, one patient is infected with Delta Plus variant, whom we have isolated but he is asymptomatic and none of his primary and secondary contacts have it. That is a good sign," Sudhakar told reporters.
The committee that will have its first official meeting on Wednesday will formulate a strategy to develop infrastructure and also determine the treatment procedure so that the disease can be controlled from the beginning.
"The delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the US to our attempt to eliminate Covid," Dr Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, warned at a White House briefing. "Good news: Our vaccines are effective against the delta variant."
White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said the administration, instead, has met its 70 per cent target for people 30 and older and is on track to hit it for those 27 and older by July 4, Xinhua news agency reported.
Addressing the Health Ministry's media briefing on Covid, Paul said, "The decision (to reopen schools) has to be taken cautiously. We should take risks only when we are protected. Schools are places of large gatherings, which give the virus the opportunity to infect.
A spokesperson of Apollo Hospitals said the facility in Delhi will tentatively start administering 2-dose vaccine by June 25.
In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 178,119,063 and 3,857,719, respectively.
Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the campaign will be launched on June 21 to create awareness on Covid vaccination programme in rural and remote areas of the country and to "crush and curb" the rumours and apprehensions, being spread by some vested interests regarding the ongoing drive.
The researchers affiliated with the University of Oxford posted findings ahead of peer review to medRxiv, drawing on data from the UK Biobank.
"We have a huge number of countries currently that have had to suspend the rollout of their second doses of vaccine," Xinhua news agency quoted Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to the WHO Director-General on Organizational Change, as saying on Friday.
To resist the Delta variant, people need to develop as twice antibodies as required before, which has caused the herd immunity level in Moscow to drop from 60 per cent to just 25 per cent, Xinhua news agency quoted Sobyanin as saying on Friday.
On June 3, a Bhopal institute said samples of nine lions at the Tamil Nadu zoo had tested positive for SARS CoV-2.
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