Health experts on Wednesday sought to downplay apprehensions centred around XE, a new coronavirus variant deemed more transmissible, and said despite being around since January, the strain has not......
The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 appears to be having a less severe impact than the earlier variants, a study in South Africa has found. IMAGE: A worker pastes a sticker on a wall of a COVID-19......
'Better to prevent than to wait for evidence. Protection delayed can also mean protection denied' IMAGE: A health worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a beneficiary at a government......
Scientists associated with Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG), the government panel that conducts research on different variants of the coronavirus, said they were surprised at......
A new lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus linked with high infectivity and immune escape mutation has been identified in India, but there is no evidence yet that it is driving the Covid surge either in......
Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg, who discovered the hepatitis B virus, will join the Pune-based drug discovery firm Indus Biotech as chairman of its advisory board.The Philadelphia-based scientist......