Tag: Uk Covid Strain

London: Healthy young adults who have previously contracted Covid-19 will be recruited to take part in a new human challenge trial to study how the body’s immune system reacts to…

New Delhi: Concerned over a new strain of coronavirus in the UK that is feared to be more contagious, several countries have barred passenger flights to/from the UK. Reacting on this development, Rajasthan CM Ashok Ghelot and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal have also demanded a similar ban. However, the central government is yet to take […]

Bengaluru/New Delhi:  Karnataka decided to impose night curfew from Thrusday night till January 2 across the state in the wake of a new coronavirus strain discovered in the UK. With this, Karnataka is the second state after Maharashtra to announce a new set of restrictions amid global fears over the new strain of coronavirus discovered […]

London: Two cases of another new strain of COVID-19 linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed here on Wednesday. Like the UK variant identified earlier, the new variant of the novel coronavirus is also driving a massive resurgence of the disease in South Africa, with experts warning […]

New Delhi: All international passengers who arrived in India during the 14 days, from December 9 to December 22, if symptomatic and tested positive, will be subjected to genome sequencing in a bid to find if they have the new UK coronavirus strain. Others will be followed up by the respective states and district surveillance […]

London: The highly infectious variant of the novel coronavirus which swept across the UK last year before spreading worldwide, could be 30 to 100 per cent deadlier than previous versions of the virus, according to a new study. The research, published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, noted that this variant, B.1.1.7, is linked […]