Just as the world was beginning to expect vaccines to usher in a healthier 2021, the UK on Sunday warned against a highly contagious and mutated strain of coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has placed London and surrounding areas under the strictest blockade since March, effectively canceling Christmas. “When the …
Read More »‘Sick man from Europe’: UK isolated over fears over new Covid-19 strain
By: Reuters | Dover | Updated: December 21, 2020 7:59:54 pm British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference in response to the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), inside 10 Downing Street, London, on Saturday, December 19, 2020 (Toby Melville / Pool Photo via AP) The …
Read More »Government is alert, no need to panic: Health Minister on new Covid-19 strain in UK
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 21, 2020 3:34:03 pm Union Minister of Health, DR Harsh Vardhan Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Monday that the government was on alert about the new strain of coronavirus that has emerged in the UK and called …
Read More »Two pan-Indian studies on the Covid-19 virus genome do not suggest any major mutation: PMO
At least two studies on the genome of SARS-CoV-2 or the novel coronavirus in India suggested that the deadly virus is genetically stable and there is no major mutation in the virus, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) confirmed on Saturday. Both pan-Indian studies have been conducted by the Indian Council …
Read More »China’s new outbreak shows signs of the Covid-19 could be changing
[ad_1] BEIJING : The chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in the new cluster of cases in the northeast region, in comparison with the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways, and that complicates efforts to eradicate it. The …
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