Latest Developments on Covid-19 June 20th: Fresh Covid-19 cases saw a huge surge in almost all states and Union Territories this week. Maharashtra reported the highest number of infections where the weekly tally crossed the 25,000 mark, up from 17,380 in the preceding week, as per media reports. Kerala too reported a spike of 42%, … Read more
Owing to its infectious nature, many health experts have also said that double mutant and its descendant Delta variant may have been one of the major causes behind the ferocious second wave in the country. In a significant development, the Uttar Pradesh government revealed the results of a genome sequencing study conducted at Lucknow’s King … Read more
Hinting at the transmission of the new strains of Coronavirus from California, he said that sudden increase in Coronavirus cases has also been reported in many other countries including Brazil, France and the United Kingdom. The state of Maharashtra is facing an acute crisis with a massive hike in double mutated strain of Coronavirus L452R … Read more
US National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins was quoted as saying that the scientific community is very worried as few more mutations could make the virus hugely infectious. With the emergence of highly transmissible variants of Coronavirus in different countries of the world, chances of the rapid increase in Coronavirus infection have gone up … Read more