Covid Mutations

Beijing faces a surge in severe COVID-19 cases over the next two weeks, a respiratory expert said, amid global concerns over possible mutations and knock-on effects for the world economy after the surprise ditching of China's tough virus policies.

The US is concerned China's runaway Covid-19 outbreak might spawn new mutations of the virus, as the world's most populous country continues to grapple with the impact of loosening "Covid Zero" protocols that had kept the pandemic at bay.

China will not relax its COVID-19 measures but will keep improving them according to the changing epidemic situation and mutation of the virus, a disease expert said.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday directed officials to continue to focus on surveillance and whole genome sequencing to scan any possible mutations while stressing on adequate testing and effective monitoring to assess the spread

The patient had fallen victim to 10 mutations of coronavirus, including Alpha, Gamma and the Omicron.

The WHO has said that it is continuing to monitor "several descendent lineages" of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, including two new sublineages that have additional mutations associated with potential "immune escape characteristics."

India's first case of the coronavirus variant XE has been reported in Mumbai. The XE variant was first found in the UK and is a mutation of two Omicron strains BA.1 and BA.2.

Mumbai today reported India's first case of the new coronavirus variant XE. The strain, which is more transmissible than Omicron, has recast the spotlight on the ongoing risk of the virus.

The disclosure of new Covid variants emerging in China and the rise of a potentially more transmissible strain in the U.K. has recast the spotlight on the ongoing risk of the virus, even as health experts say there's no reason to panic.

A South African woman suffering from inadequately treated HIV, and who harbored Covid-19 for nine months saw the respiratory virus develop at least 21 mutations while in her body, according to a study.

As the world grapples with the highly mutated Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, scientists have identified a new strain of the COVID-19 causing virus in Southern France.

There is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on Omicron variant of coronavirus, though some of the mutations reported on spike gene may decrease the efficacy of existing vaccines, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

Newer Covid variants - such as Delta and Omicron -carry mutations to the spike protein, which can make them less recognisable to the immune cells and antibodies stimulated by vaccination.

Pfizer Inc.'s vaccine provides less immunity to the omicron variant than to other major versions of Covid-19, according to laboratory experiments that still indicated a third dose may help stop the highly mutated strain.

The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said on Friday, as authorities worldwide rushed to stem the heavily mutated Covid-19 strain's spread amid warnings that it could damage the global eco

Beijing faces a surge in severe COVID-19 cases over the next two weeks, a respiratory expert said, amid global concerns over possible mutations and knock-on effects for the world economy after the surprise ditching of China's tough virus policies.

The US is concerned China's runaway Covid-19 outbreak might spawn new mutations of the virus, as the world's most populous country continues to grapple with the impact of loosening "Covid Zero" protocols that had kept the pandemic at bay.

China will not relax its COVID-19 measures but will keep improving them according to the changing epidemic situation and mutation of the virus, a disease expert said.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday directed officials to continue to focus on surveillance and whole genome sequencing to scan any possible mutations while stressing on adequate testing and effective monitoring to assess the spread

The patient had fallen victim to 10 mutations of coronavirus, including Alpha, Gamma and the Omicron.

The WHO has said that it is continuing to monitor "several descendent lineages" of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, including two new sublineages that have additional mutations associated with potential "immune escape characteristics."

India's first case of the coronavirus variant XE has been reported in Mumbai. The XE variant was first found in the UK and is a mutation of two Omicron strains BA.1 and BA.2.

Mumbai today reported India's first case of the new coronavirus variant XE. The strain, which is more transmissible than Omicron, has recast the spotlight on the ongoing risk of the virus.

The disclosure of new Covid variants emerging in China and the rise of a potentially more transmissible strain in the U.K. has recast the spotlight on the ongoing risk of the virus, even as health experts say there's no reason to panic.

A South African woman suffering from inadequately treated HIV, and who harbored Covid-19 for nine months saw the respiratory virus develop at least 21 mutations while in her body, according to a study.

As the world grapples with the highly mutated Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, scientists have identified a new strain of the COVID-19 causing virus in Southern France.

There is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on Omicron variant of coronavirus, though some of the mutations reported on spike gene may decrease the efficacy of existing vaccines, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.

Newer Covid variants - such as Delta and Omicron -carry mutations to the spike protein, which can make them less recognisable to the immune cells and antibodies stimulated by vaccination.

Pfizer Inc.'s vaccine provides less immunity to the omicron variant than to other major versions of Covid-19, according to laboratory experiments that still indicated a third dose may help stop the highly mutated strain.

The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said on Friday, as authorities worldwide rushed to stem the heavily mutated Covid-19 strain's spread amid warnings that it could damage the global eco