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The Uttar Pradesh government has issued an alert after a case of a new strain of coronavirus, recently found in the UK, was detected in a two-year-old girl, according to the Hindustan Times’ sister publication Hindustan. The state health department has directed its officials and hospital staff to be more …

In a shot in the arm for India, the Coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University received emergency use authorization (US) from the UK. In India, the vaccine, called Covishield, which is being manufactured by the Serum Institute, is likely to gain regulatory approval within days. Development comes even …

CALCUTTA: West Bengal reported the first case of a mutant coronavirus strain to appear in the UK, a senior health official said on Wednesday. The patient, the son of a senior official at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, tested positive for the mutant strain VUI-202012/01 after returning from London, the …

In a day six cases of the new strain of coronavirus were detected in India, the Center said Tuesday that samples from all Covid-19 symptomatic passengers who arrived in the country on Dec. 9-22 would be subjected to genome sequencing. Also, to control the spread of the most contagious strain …

An Anglo-Indian woman, who tested positive for Covid-19 after her return from the UK and managed to sneak out of a hospital in Delhi to reach Andhra Pradesh, was found infected with the new strain of coronavirus. However, the spread of the variant of it in Andhra Pradesh has not …

Thane: A resident of Dombivli, who had recently returned from the UK, where a new strain of coronavirus has been detected, has tested positive for the infection. According to the instructions of the Center, the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) officials conducted a test drive in the Twin Cities, during which …

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s health minister has rejected the claim of his British counterpart that a new variant of the coronavirus in the country is more contagious or dangerous than a similar one in the UK spread. “At present, there is no evidence that the 501.V2 (variant) is more transmissible than …

MUMBAI: The government plans to track everyone who arrived from Britain in the past month, officials said Tuesday, hoping to stop a more infectious strain of the coronavirus detected there from spreading in a country struggling with the second-plus count. Covid-19 high in the world. Eight people who arrived from …

The new variant of SARS-CoV-2, said to have originated in south-east England, has raised concerns about the effectiveness of vaccines developed to provide immunity against coronavirus disease (Covid-19). According to a CNN report, Pfizer Inc. has begun work on generating data to analyze how well blood samples from people inoculated …

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 8:50:20 pm An Indian municipal worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) watches passengers arriving from the UK at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, December 22, 2020. In light of the emergence of a new, …