\"The interim analysis report should be out in a week,\" Bhargava said on the clinical trials against the new variants.

Maharashtra reported a jump of 5,427 cases on Thursday and Mumbai reported 736 cases. Amravati has been put under a weekend lockdown and Yavatmal has been placed under restrictions

A study from South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand and Oxford University showed the vaccine had significantly reduced efficacy against the South African variant

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday extended the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger flights till 11.59 pm on February 28, 2021

Scientists say the new South African variant has multiple mutations in the important \"spike\" protein that the virus uses to infect human cells

Bharat Biotech's Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Krishna Ella, in a press conference on Monday, January 5, clarified that its vaccine is safe and the company is conducting trials in over 12 countries besides India

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The SEC has recommended Covaxin for emergency use authorisation; the recommendation, along with rollout modalities, will now be taken up by the DCGI for a final decision on the matter

Results of the 15 samples that had tested positive for coronavirus on arrival in Ahmedabad from the UK are currently pending with the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune

New coronavirus strain: Puri said that there would be 30 flights operating between the two countries every week till January 23

Operations till January 23 will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of the two countries to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Hyderabad only, the Civil Aviation Minister said

The variant was detected in a 23-year-old female student returning to China from Britain, who was tested in Shanghai on December 14

Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar noted that owing to the coronavirus lockdown and other curbs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the country will reach \"pre-COVID level\" by the end of 2021

The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has requested the government to put the entire country under the 'Tier 4' category of lockdown

The mutant coronavirus which had Britain reimposing strict lockdown has made its way to India. Out of 33,000 passengers who came from the UK ,between November 25 and December 22, 114 passengers tested positive for coronavirus out of which six of them have the new strain. Those positive for new coronavirus have been kept in single room isolation pods at special health care facilities by state governments and their close ones have also been quarantined. Watch the video for more details.

Omar al-Hammadi, an official spokesman of the UAE government, said at a press briefing on Tuesday that those affected had travelled from abroad, without specifying from where or the number of the cases

This development comes amid reports of 14 new cases of the new COVID-19 strain in India, taking the number to 20

Covaxin can protect against COVID-19 mutant: Bharat Biotech Covaxin, a vaccine candidate being developed by Bharat Biotech for COVID-19, can offer protection against mutations of coronavirus, Chairman and Managing Director of the city-based vaccine maker, Krishna Ella, said on Tuesday. He also said the company has approached regulatory authorities seeking approval for an emergency license to use the vaccine, developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and t...

CSIR-CCMB in Hyderabad, which is among the ten research institutes tracing the new Covid-19 strain in India, says the new strain has not worsened the Covid-19 symptoms so far in India but there's a need to keep a tab on other new variants that might emerge

The new coronavirus strain has so far been detected in the US, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore