India registered five new cases of mutated coronavirus disease on Thursday, bringing the total case count to 25, the Health Ministry said. Of the five new cases, four have been tracked by the National Institute of Virology in Pune and the CSIR Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi. …
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BENGALURU: Civic officials sealed off an apartment complex in Vasanthapura, Bommanahalli area, on Tuesday after its two residents with UK travel histories were reported to have contracted the new strain of the coronavirus. The Covid-19 prevention protocol requires BBMP to switch all contacts from such cases to institutional quarantine, but …
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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 …
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New Delhi: The Center has suggested a series of restrictions ahead of the New Year to tone down celebrations in the context of the Covid outbreak and the new super-infectious strain that has arrived in India with people returning from the UK. States have been asked to impose restrictions on …
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India had previously banned all flights from the UK until December 31. New Delhi: The Indian government on Wednesday extended the suspension of flights to and from the UK until January 7 amid alarms over the highly contagious new strain of the coronavirus. “A decision has been made to extend …
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The BBMP said the relatives and neighbors of those who tested positive did not want to move into an institutional quarantine facility. Following two patients who tested positive for the new British variant of the novel coronavirus, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) sealed an entire apartment complex in the …
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Coronavirus LIVE updates: The women, who returned from the UK to Delhi and then arrived in Andhra Pradesh on a special train after escaping from an isolation facility, tested positive for the UK strain of coronavirus, said Katamneni Bhaskar, Commissioner State Health and Family Welfare Department. Other states have stepped …
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The first reported United States case of the Covid-19 variant seen in the United Kingdom was discovered in Colorado, Governor Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The coronavirus variant was found in a man in his 20s who is isolated southeast of Denver and has no travel history, state health officials said. …
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NEW DELHI: The judicious use of therapies that have not been established for the treatment of Covid-19 is responsible for putting “immune pressure on the virus” and leads to mutations of the virus, ICMR director general Dr. Balram Bhargava. “Those therapies that are touted as ‘antiviral therapies’ or ‘anti-Covid’ and …
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A total of six people who returned to India from the UK have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus discovered there, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said in a statement on Tuesday. Of these, the ministry said, three samples tested positive in Bengaluru, two …
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