Wellington: New Zealand moved into a snap three-day lockdown Tuesday after identifying a single case of locally transmitted Covid-19 suspected to be the Delta variant, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. Ardern said New Zealand, which had not recorded any infections in the community for six months, could not take…
Anthony Fauci, the U.S.’s top infectious-disease doctor, said he’s “strongly in favor” of speeding booster shots to people with weakened immune systems, a further sign of how the delta variant continues to shift the strategies for curbing the pandemic. “We need to look at them in a…
HIGHLIGHTS Amazon has delayed return-to-office for its employees to next year. It promises to inform employees with “multiple weeks’ notice” in case of any changes. It has not adopted a vaccination mandate for office return yet. Amazon has extended the timeline for calling its employees to office, citing…
The United Kingdom on Wednesday moved India from its ‘red’ to ‘amber’ list, a categorisation created for international travel amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The classification makes it easy for people travelling to the UK from other countries to understand the rules they must follow to enter the…
The Delta variant of coronavirus has been the predominant one causing Covid-19 infections among children in Karnataka, genome sequencing of the virus during the second wave has found. “There is no distinctive variant in children infected with the coronavirus. It is mainly Delta that is…
Two weeks ago, the delta variant was ripping through the UK, stoking fears of a record wave of Covid-19 clobbering one of the world’s most highly vaccinated countries. Then, almost overnight, daily cases plummeted, renewing hope that the pandemic’s end — at least in some parts of the world — is…
The World Health Organization said Thursday the Delta variant has led to a “surge” in coronavirus outbreaks triggering a “fourth wave” in the Middle East, where vaccination rates remain low. The global health body said the highly transmissible strain, first detected in India, has been recorded…
The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, according to virologists and epidemiologists. Vaccine protection remains…
There’s no good place to stand inside the Pandemic Response Lab’s sequencing facility in Queens, N.Y. Take a wrong step, and you’re blocking a gowned-up lab tech as she ferries a plate with the RNA from 384 Covid-19 test samples to a machine that runs a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, identifies…