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JN.1 Covid variant: Should we worry?
1 year ago

JN.1 Covid variant: Should we worry?

Hindustan Times  

A 78-year-old Kerala woman on Saturday became the first person in India confirmed to be infected with JN.1 variant of Sars-CoV-2 — the latest sub-variant of the virus that is behind a spike of infections in several countries across the world and has also prompted the World Health Organization to warn nations to continue with strong surveillance and sequence sharing. …

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COVID-19 origins | GISAID U-turn adds to confusion over ‘new’ Chinese data
1 year, 9 months ago

COVID-19 origins | GISAID U-turn adds to confusion over ‘new’ Chinese data

The Hindu  

In an unusual turn of events, the scientists who recently announced what they said was “compelling” evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic had a ‘natural’ origin rather than being the product of a lab experiment gone awry were banned by GISAID from using the database that contained the genomic information they used for their study – only for the latter to …

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Covid ‘most-likely’ jumped from animals to humans, claims new report
1 year, 9 months ago

Covid ‘most-likely’ jumped from animals to humans, claims new report

Hindustan Times  

A new analysis of samples taken from a market in Wuhan, China during the early days of the pandemic are the strongest evidence yet that the Covid-19 virus jumped from animals to humans, some researchers say. “These data do not provide a definitive answer to the question of how the pandemic began,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday in …

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Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?
1 year, 11 months ago

Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?

LA Times  

People look after their elderly relatives and patients receive intravenous drips while using a ventilators in a hallway at the Changhai Hospital in Shanghai, China. Without basic data like the number of deaths, infections and severe cases, governments elsewhere have instituted virus testing requirements for travelers from China. That hasn’t stopped at least 10 countries — including the United States, …

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EXPLAINER: Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?
1 year, 11 months ago

EXPLAINER: Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?

Associated Press  

TAIPEI, Taiwan — As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data on the outbreak. Without basic data like the number of deaths, infections and severe cases, governments elsewhere have instituted virus testing requirements for travelers from China. That hasn’t stopped at least 10 countries — including …

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Explained | Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?

The Hindu  

As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data on the outbreak. Without basic data like the number of deaths, infections and severe cases, governments elsewhere have instituted virus testing requirements for travelers from China. The versions fueling infections in China “closely resemble” those that have been …

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Explained: Is China sharing enough Covid-19 information?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained: Is China sharing enough Covid-19 information?

Live Mint  

As Covid-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data on the outbreak. Without basic data like the number of deaths, infections and severe cases, governments elsewhere have instituted virus testing requirements for travelers from China. That hasn't stopped at least 10 countries — including the US, Canada, …

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EXPLAINER: Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?
1 year, 11 months ago

EXPLAINER: Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Without basic data like the number of deaths, infections …

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2022 ends with looming risk of a new coronavirus variant, health experts warn
1 year, 11 months ago

2022 ends with looming risk of a new coronavirus variant, health experts warn

CNN  

CNN — As the world enters a new year, many public health and infectious disease experts predict that monitoring for new coronavirus variants will be an increasingly important part of Covid-19 mitigation efforts – and some are turning their attention to a surge in cases in China. Subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to circulate globally, and “we’re seeing …

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Explained | The emerging Omicron sublineages across the world
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | The emerging Omicron sublineages across the world

The Hindu  

The story so far: Since the initial outbreak in 2019 in Wuhan, China, the world has seen multiple repeated waves of COVID-19 infections over the past few years, largely driven by the emerging variants of concern of the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2. These belong to 14 different lineages of SARS-CoV-2, all of which are Omicron sublineages, including BA.5.2, BQ.1.1, BF.7, BF.5, …

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Data | COVID-19 hospitalisations rise in Mumbai, Chennai
2 years, 6 months ago

Data | COVID-19 hospitalisations rise in Mumbai, Chennai

The Hindu  

The number of COVID-19 cases has once again started to increase in India. Much like the previous waves, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru have recorded a large number of cases. For instance, in Mumbai, the number of oxygen beds occupied increased from around 2 in mid-May to around 30 by June 8. Hover over the chart to find the exact …

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Understanding the global Omicron threat
3 years ago

Understanding the global Omicron threat

Hindustan Times  

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization said that preliminary evidence appears to indicate that vaccines may be less effective against infection and transmission linked to the Omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2, which also carries a “higher risk of re-infection”. The expanding global spread of Omicron Of the 60 countries that have confirmed Omicron infections to GISAID, the United Kingdom has the …

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Explained: A recap of emerging evidence on Omicron
3 years ago

Explained: A recap of emerging evidence on Omicron

The Hindu  

It has been two weeks since the World Health Organization designated Omicron as a Variant of Concern in the ongoing SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic. The transmission rate, immune evasion and the proportions of patients developing severe disease and death are the useful parameters which would enable broad assessments on how the variant would impact the population. In the perspective of public …

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WHO Names New Variant 'Omicron': What We Know So Far, the Recommendations, Where India Stands
3 years ago

WHO Names New Variant 'Omicron': What We Know So Far, the Recommendations, Where India Stands

News 18  

Nearly two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant – B.1.1.529 – potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent. A World Health Organization panel named the variant “omicron” and classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern, the same category that …

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Genomic sequencing hubs must be made a permanent part of India’s pandemic response
3 years, 4 months ago

Genomic sequencing hubs must be made a permanent part of India’s pandemic response

Firstpost  

Public labs put into action by the INSACOG for this purpose are not adequately funded and have the capacity to process only 30,000 samples a month. To achieve the five percent sequencing target, India must process 75,000 samples a month which is 2.5 times the current scale. Making private sector labs a part of the genome sequencing process can help …

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Delta variant spreading rapidly, behind most new infections in major countries
3 years, 5 months ago

Delta variant spreading rapidly, behind most new infections in major countries

India Today  

The highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus, first detected in India in February this year, has now spread to almost 100 countries, the latest World Health Organization data reveals. Considered to be two-and-a-half times more transmissible than the original virus, the Delta variant is responsible for most new infections in India, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, South Africa and numerous …

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EXPLAINED: Meet Kappa And Lambda, The Newest Sars-CoV-2 Variants That Experts Are Tracking Closely
3 years, 5 months ago

EXPLAINED: Meet Kappa And Lambda, The Newest Sars-CoV-2 Variants That Experts Are Tracking Closely

News 18  

Beta has followed Alpha and they were joined by Gamma and Delta, too, as WHO-designated Variants of Concern of the novel coronavirus. While the world is warily tracking the spread of the Delta variant, or B.1.617.2, which was first identified in India in October last year, India itself is worried about Delta-plus. Kappa was first detected in India and more …

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B.1.617.2 becoming dominant variant in India, finds genome sequencing
3 years, 7 months ago

B.1.617.2 becoming dominant variant in India, finds genome sequencing

India Today  

The United Kingdom has been closely watching the movement of the sub-lineages of the B.1.617 variant that originated in India - B1617.1, B1617.2, and B.617.3. Experts in genomic sequencing of Covid-19 variants in India have now revealed that cases which show B.1.617.2 are slowly eclipsing almost all other variants, including B.1.1.7 -- the Kent variant that originated in the UK. …

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'Indian strain' of coronavirus found in 17 countries: WHO
3 years, 7 months ago

'Indian strain' of coronavirus found in 17 countries: WHO

India Today  

The 'Indian strain' of the coronavirus, also known as B.1.617 or a 'double mutant', has been found in at least 17 countries, the WHO has said, as the world grapples to contain the surge in the Covid-19 cases with 5.7 million infections detected last week, surpassing previous peaks. "Preliminary modelling by WHO based on sequences submitted to GISAID suggest that …

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B.1.617: The Curious Case of the Deadly Double Mutant Coronavirus Strain
3 years, 8 months ago

B.1.617: The Curious Case of the Deadly Double Mutant Coronavirus Strain

News 18  

When the double mutant strain of Covid-19 was found in California, American scientist William A Haseltine wrote in Forbes, “The B.1.617 variant has all the hallmarks of a very dangerous virus. Dr Vineeta Bal added, “Based on preliminary data it appears that one mutation in this variant may make it more infectious so it can be behind the rapid disease …

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Much of US data to catch newest coronavirus variants is several months old
3 years, 11 months ago

Much of US data to catch newest coronavirus variants is several months old

CNN  

CNN — As part of the hunt for new coronavirus variants, an international database shows the United States ranks 61st in how quickly virus samples are collected from patients, analyzed and then posted online. “We need to have this data much more quickly so we can see what’s going on,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of …

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