Agrawal further said that a good part about the vaccine was their ability to reduce the severity of the infection by several notches among the patients. A recent study has shown what was long feared about the Delta variant of Coronavirus, that it spreads at an extremely fast rate and also evades the immune response … Read more
Recent epidemiological research has found the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant to be 40 per cent more contagious than the Alpha variant Reduced vaccine efficiency and high infectiousness during the pre-symptomatic phase are leading to rapid transmission of the coronavirus’ Delta variant, several studies have found. Recent epidemiological research has found the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant to be … Read more
University of Oxford and Office for National Statistics researchers conducted the study, the results of which were published in a pre-print The effectiveness of Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against the Delta variant of the coronavirus wanes over time despite offering considerable protection against the strain, a UK study has found. University of Oxford and Office … Read more
INSACOG is a consortium of 28 genome sequencing laboratories carrying out sequencing and analysis of the Covid-19 virus to understand the spread and evolution of the SARS CoV-2, its mutations and resulting variants as well as ascertaining the status of the variants. The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus has been found in 174 districts … Read more
The Delta variant is the name given to strain B.1.617.2 of the coronavirus and it has been classified as a variant of concern by global health agency WHO and by India Sputnik V vaccine for coronavirus: Sputnik V vaccine to get a version for Delta strain! Global vaccination drives have been gaining momentum to effectively … Read more