The double mutation happens when two mutated strains of a virus come together and form a third strain. In India,  E484Q and L452R are the two mutated strains that have combined and form a new strain, now classified as B.1.617

The variant, classified as 'B.1.617', has now been found in eight nations, with 70% of samples comprising mutations believed to have stemmed from India. Experts have termed the \"new double mutant strain\" a desi (Indian) variant

Tesla's Shanghai factory started production of the Model Y late last year in the key market where it already produces Model 3 sedans. In February, Tesla's China sales jumped 18% from the previous month even as demand usually falls during China's Lunar New Year holidays

India has made vaccines available to 30 other countries in Africa, Congresswoman Karen Bass said on India's vaccine delivery efforts in Africa during a markup of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday

Covid-19 vaccines that have been approved across the world so far have properties that create \"neutralising antibodies\" in our body, which blocks the virus from entering the body. But these VoCs and \"double mutants\" can escape these antibodies

The visit, during a nationwide spike of anti-Asian violence, has added resonance with the presence of Harris, the first person of South Asian descent to hold national office

The team, including researchers from University of California San Diego in the US, note that their simulations suggest that the mutating virus dies out naturally more than three-quarters of the time without causing an epidemic

Before the pandemic struck, applications for unemployment aid had never topped 700,000 in any one week

Disney was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic as theme parks and movie theaters were forced to shut down, but it has impressed Wall Street with the growth of Disney+, which debuted in November 2019

Theme and amusement parks would be permitted to restart on April 1 with severely limited capacity, but only if the counties where they operate are removed from the \"purple\" tier of California's color-coded COVID-19 restrictions, the system's most stringent classification

The new variant, known as B.1.526, was first identified in samples collected in New York in November, and by mid-February represented about 12% of cases, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, said on Wednesday

Former President Donald Trump issued the ban last year, saying it was needed to protect US workers amid high unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic

A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta

Apple, which has steadily raised production of iPhones in India to lessen its dependence on Chinese manufacturing, took part in that scheme via its contract manufacturers

Reports show that violence against Asians flared across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic amid the rhetoric by former US President Donald Trump, who preferred to term the coronavirus 'the China Virus' or the 'Kung Flu'

GameStop, the video game retailer whose 1,700% rally has been at the heart of the slugfest in the past week, initially rallied to more than $480 a share on Thursday

GM plans to become carbon neutral by 2040. Auto major made this announcement over a week after President Joe Biden took office, pledging to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

A rare public rebuke from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who during a conference call accused Apple of favoring its own interests and not those of users

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai says, to help with mass vaccination efforts, starting in the United States, Google will make select facilities such as buildings, parking lots and open spaces available to anyone eligible for the vaccine based on state and local guidelines

Global economic outlook remains highly uncertain: IMF chief The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday the global economic outlook remained highly uncertain given the coronavirus pandemic, and a growing divergence between rich and poor countries required the IMF to find more resources. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said a new allocation of the IMF's own currency, Special Drawing Rights, would help give countries more fiscal space to tackle the health crisis and ...