39,796 Fresh Covid Cases In India, Lowest Daily Rise In Nearly 3 Months: 10 Points

With less than 40,000 fresh Covid cases recorded in the last 24 hours, India registered the lowest daily rise since March 19 amid easing of curbs in several parts after tough restrictions due to the second wave. 723 deaths were recorded since Sunday. Here are ten points on coronavirus cases in India: India has logged…

No antibodies against Delta variant in 16% samples after two doses of Covishield: Study

A new study claims that neutralising antibodies against the Delta variant (B1.617.2) of Covid-19 were not found in 16.1 per cent samples from those who had been administered both doses of the Covishield vaccine. Further, neutralising antibodies were not observed in 58.1 per cent of serum samples from those who had been…

Explained: What is Delta Plus, a variant of coronavirus with K417N mutation?

India said on Wednesday it has found around 40 cases of the Delta coronavirus variant carrying a mutation that appears to make it more transmissible, and advised states to increase testing. Below is what we know about the variant. What is Delta Plus? The variant, called “Delta Plus” in India,…

Sputnik V vaccine protects from all known variants of Covid: Head of Russia’s Gamaleya Institute

HIGHLIGHTS Sputnik V has received emergency use approval in India Highly transmissible Delta variant has further mutated to form Delta Plus Antibodies developed after vaccination with Sputnik V protect from all variants: Gintsburg Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine protects against all known variants of Covid-19, said…

Covaxin, Covishield effective against Delta variant of Covid-19: Centre

HIGHLIGHTS 29 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered to date 22 cases of Delta Plus variant have been reported in India: Rajesh Bhushan Genome sequencing of a total of 45,000 samples has been conducted at 28 INSACOG labs Covaxin and Covishield are effective against the Delta variant of coronavirus,…

Rise in Delta variant cases worry UK residents, experts hopeful of AstraZeneca vaccine

Real-world data from Public Health England comes as a reassurance against the Delta variant as the number of Covid-19 cases rises in the UK, leading experts to fear the third wave. Had all gone according to plan, on June 21, England would have fully come out of the shackles of lockdown, but that was not to be. Pat…

Delta Plus variant may defeat vaccines, antibodies and infection immunity, warns Prof Jameel

While evidence shows that the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) dominated during the second wave of Covid-19 in India, there is a growing concern about the parent variant’s most recent mutation, known as the Delta Plus or AY.01. Experts have said that the Delta Plus variant could evade both vaccine and infection…

Delta Variant Accounts For Nearly 90% Of New Covid Cases In Moscow: Mayor

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday that the highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India represents almost 90 percent of new cases in the Russian capital. “The latest data we have received is that 89.3 percent are sick with a mutated coronavirus, the so-called ‘Delta,'” Sobyanin…

Delta variant 60% more transmissible, reduces vaccine effect, UK experts say

The Delta variant is 50% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, first discovered in the UK, experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) said. The rapid surge in cases during Delhi’s fourth Covid-19 wave was mainly driven by the…