COVID STRAIN

9 MORE DETECTED WITH UK COVID STRAIN, TOTAL CASES IN INDIA RISE TO 38

05 Jan 2021

Nine more Covid patients have been detected with the UK Covid strain, taking the total number of such cases to 38 in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. All the nine latest additions have been reported from a single laboratory in the national capital, which accounts for...

29 POSITIVE CASES OF MUTANT STRAIN REPORTED IN INDIA

02 Jan 2021

New Delhi: Four more cases of the highly contagious new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus were detected in the country on Friday. The Union Health Ministry has informed that the strain has affected 29 people so far. Out of the four cases, three were found in a Bengaluru lab,...

Punjab to send 5% of total positive samples daily to premier institutes to check new mutated strain

31 Dec 2020

CHANDIGARH: Principal Secretary Medical Education and Research DK Tiwari on Wednesday said that in order to check the mutation of new mutated strain (N501Y) SARS-CoV-2 virus in Punjab, the state government has decided to send 5% positive samples per week to Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and...

AFTER ‘GO CORONA GO’, ATHAWALE HAS NEW SLOGAN TO BEAT UK COVID STRAIN

28 Dec 2020

Pune: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday said that his earlier slogan “Go Corona, Corona Go” was effective as the Covid-19 situation in the country was improving and has now coined a new slogan “No Corona, Corona No” in an attempt to combat the new more infectious strain of coronavirus,...