On Thursday, 25th November 2021, a new strain of covid-19 has been reported to be spreading very fast in South Africa. Scientist has named it as B1.1.529 and is showing similarities to lambda and...
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Is Covaxin effective against Delta variant?
Delta plus variant is at a very fast spread in the world now almost reported in 135 countries. It is actually a SARS-Cov-2 variant which has lead to second wave in India with high...
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DELTA PLUS variant spreading faster than expected…….?
As per the US health authority documents that is CDC(Centre for disease control) unpublished data, Delta plus variant spreads faster than expected and may cause severe illness. It also confirms that people who are...
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EFFICACY OF PRESENT VACCINES ON COVID VARIANTS
Till now as per the clinical data, the Covishield and Covaxin can work only on SARS-Cov-2 variants like α(Alpha),β(Beta),γ(Gamma),δ(Delta). Delta plus variant has entered India 6months ago and researchers and scientists of ICMR are...
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Why 2 Deoxy D glucose has been claimed as effective drug for covid-19?
Recently 2Deoxy D glucose is catching the media attention claiming that it is more effective in reducing and recovering from covid-19 infection. Strictly speaking it is still under clinical trials. Research has been done...
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WHO confirms, B1617 variant found in 17 countries causing surge in second wave
By the evidence of sequences of samples uploaded in open access data base GISAID(the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data), WHO confirms that atleast 17 countries are showing B1617 variant in the second...
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Non detectable multimutations is a serious concern in second wave in India
RT-PCR seemed to be gold standard for detections of nCoV-2 during first wave taking reference as the SARS-CoV-2 strain genome. But the mutations occurring at a very fast pace during these months and surge...
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Maharashtra samples showing double mutant
In about 200 samples from Maharashtra double variant strain has been found as per the reports on 24th March 2021 by Union Health Ministry making Maharashtra as the hot spot during second wave in...
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Recent reports on new Covid-19 strains from India
The covid-19 cases have spiked in Maharashtra, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab which was reported recently by AIIMS institute. The chief of AIIMS Dr.Randeep Guleria also said that the new strains detected now in...
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COVAXIN releases a factsheet for its vaccination
Bharat Biotech has released a detailed fact sheet on COVAXIN that patients suffering from immune deficiency or immune suppressed should not take the vaccine as it may not work completely or it will show...
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