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  Omicron 'almost certainly' not more severe than Delta variant: Top US scientist Fauci

  World | December 07, 2021 22:43 IST

  Several countries including India have reported cases with the Omicron variant. European nations have reported the majority of cases with the new variant.

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  Early reports encouraging about Omicron variant: Dr Fauci

  World | December 06, 2021 10:48 IST

  President Joe Biden's chief medial adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said that scientists need more information before drawing conclusion's about omicron's severity.  

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  Measures against delta work for omicron variant too, says WHO

  World | December 03, 2021 12:16 IST

  While a few regional countries are facing surges, COVID-19 cases and deaths in many others have decreased and plateaued, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Dr. Takeshi Kasai told reporters Friday in a virtual news conference broadcast from Manila, Philippines.

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  How severe is Omicron? South African doctor, who first raised alarm, tells all about new variant

  India | December 03, 2021 0:15 IST

  For now, we do know that the vaccines will protect you against the disease at this stage because irrespective of age group & co-morbidities, people who have been vaccinated, have had mild disease, South African Dr. Angelique Coetzee said.

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  Man from Africa's Zambia tests Covid positive in Pune, genome sequencing report awaited

  India | November 30, 2021 18:24 IST

  His sample has been sent for genome sequencing and the report on the same is awaited.

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  Covid-19: New Zealand reports 134 new community cases of Delta variant

  World | November 30, 2021 9:00 IST

  Among the new infections, 116 were recorded in the largest city of Auckland, eight in nearby Waikato, nine in Bay of Plenty and one in Northland, according to the Ministry of Health, Xinhua news agency reported.

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  Bengaluru: South Africans found COVID positive for Delta variant; official debunks Omicron fear

  India | November 28, 2021 13:43 IST

  The new potentially more contagious B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) from South Africa on November 24.

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  Covaxin shows 50% effectiveness against symptomatic COVID in real-world assessment: Lancet study

  India | November 24, 2021 8:56 IST

  Researchers noted that Delta variant was the dominant strain in India during the study period, accounting for approximately 80 pc of all confirmed COVID cases.

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  Covid19: How Delta and Kappa variants evade immune system

  Health | November 11, 2021 9:35 IST

  Their data demonstrated that the Delta, Kappa, and Delta Plus variants reduced virus neutralising potency from vaccine-induced antibodies. The Delta Plus variant caused the greatest decrease. Antibodies from half of the Janssen-vaccinated individuals completely lost the ability to neutralise one or more variants in the laboratory assay.

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  New Zealand reports 162 new community cases of Covid-19 Delta variant

  World | November 01, 2021 8:37 IST

  Fifty-three community cases are being treated in hospitals, including three in intensive care units or high dependency units, said a Ministry statement.

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  Delta variant detected in 99% of COVID samples from Delhi in October, reveals report

  India | October 31, 2021 18:34 IST

  Sources said that delta variant was found in almost half the samples, followed by AY.4 sublineage.

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  COVID-19 Delta variant can be transmitted by fully vaccinated people at home: Lancet study

  India | October 29, 2021 13:24 IST

  Researchers led by Imperial College London, UK, found that vaccinated people clear the infection more quickly, but the peak viral load among them is similar to that seen in unvaccinated individuals, which may explain why they can still readily pass on the virus at home.

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  Covid-19: No evidence to suggest AY.4 variant has higher infectivity rate than Delta, says scientist

  India | October 25, 2021 23:54 IST

  AY.4 is a sub-lineage of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, which was driving the deadly second wave of the infection that killed thousands from March to May.

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  COVID-19: 7 cases of new Delta variant AY.4.2 detected in MP, Maharashtra

  India | October 25, 2021 9:30 IST

  The NCDC report said that the sub-lineage had caused the Covid surge in Indore district in September when the Covid-19 infections had jumped by 64 percent in August.

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  Is the delta variant of the coronavirus worse for kids?

  World | September 23, 2021 22:46 IST

  Delta's ability to spread more easily makes it more of a risk to children and underscores the need for masks in schools and vaccinations for those who are old enough, said Dr Juan Dumois, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St Petersburg, Florida.

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  Delta Covid variant now spread to 185 countries: WHO

  World | September 22, 2021 15:51 IST

  The fast-spreading delta variant infected both the unvaccinated and fully vaccinated populations in a federal prison in Texas, according to the new report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.

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  What's driving Delta Covid variant to spread

  Science | September 07, 2021 15:26 IST

  Researchers from National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, under the Ministry of Health; CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, and University of Cambridge in the UK examined how the Delta variant was able to evade the immune response.

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  New Delta variant mutation confirmed in Japan

  World | August 31, 2021 18:51 IST

  The research team, led by Associate Professor Hiroaki Takeuchi at Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, said that the mutation was found when a patient infected with the Delta variant visited the institute earlier this month, reports Xinhua news agency.

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  Why Delta Covid variant spreads like wildfire | EXPLAINED

  Science | August 29, 2021 18:11 IST

  SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant has rapidly replaced the Alpha variant around the world. According to epidemiological studies, the Delta variant, first identified in India in late 2020, is at least 40 per cent more transmissible than the Alpha variant, first identified in the UK, last year.  

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  US calls for booster shots against Covid Delta variant

  World | August 18, 2021 21:19 IST

  The plan, as outlined by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other top authorities, calls for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.