Philippines logs 1,885 new COVID-19 cases, President to convene meeting over new virus variants

Dec 25, 2020

Manila [The Philippines], December 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines on Friday reported 1,885 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing...

Preliminary study claims DRDO's anti-COVID drug 2-DG effective against all variants, reduces multiplication of virus

Jun 16, 2021

New Delhi [India], June 16 : A new study has claimed that DRDO's anti-COVID drug 2-DG is effective against all variants of COVID-19 and...

WHO urges all to refer virus variants by their scientific names

May 12, 2021

New Delhi [India], May 12 : After several media reports referred to B.1.617 variant as 'Indian Variant', the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday...

No evidence that vaccines will not work against new COVID-19 variants: Centre

Dec 29, 2020

New Delhi [India], December 29 : COVID-19 vaccines will work against new variants of the virus detected in the UK and South Africa and...

India detects two new variants N440K and E484Q of COVID-19: Health Ministry

Feb 23, 2021

New Delhi [India], February 23 : Even as the country's COVID-19 trajectory is declining, India has detected two new variants of the virus-- namely...

WHO names Monkeypox as clades I, IIa & IIb to avoid causing any offence

Aug 13, 2022

New Delhi [India], August 13 : The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus that are currently...