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New virus variant a wake-up call; test, track & trace strategies key till more data helps: Experts

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New virus variant a wake-up call; test, track & trace strategies key till more data helps: Experts

The focus at the moment, she emphasized, needed to be on testing, tracking and tracing, especially those entering the country. It is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet that is now bothering scientists and experts around the world. Omicron or the SARS-COV-2 variant B.1.1.529 is the new concern and the question on everyone’s mind … Read more

Covid-19 UK variant spreading faster but no proof of it being more dangerous: Lancet study

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Covid-19 UK variant spreading faster but no proof of it being more dangerous: Lancet study

The study compared the behaviour of the virus among patients who were infected with the B.1.1.7 variant and those patients who had been infected with earlier prevalent Covid-19 virus strains. Even as Coronavirus spreads with multiple variants in different countries around the world at an astronomical pace, two new studies published in Lancet Infectious Diseases … Read more