Coronavirus pandemic: Without the uniform implementation of effective face masking and strict social distancing, epidemics could quickly worsen as these variants spread and become predominant, said the task force

A major incident is defined as one in which there is a risk to life and welfare and is \"beyond the scope of business-as-usual operations. It allows coordination between different emergency agencies and will let London ask for help from other areas

The order also stated: 'Those who are found negative shall be kept in compulsory institutional quarantine for a period of 7 days followed by 7 days of home quarantine'

Around six people had died of 18 people infected with the avian virus in 1997. Since 2003, it has spread from Asia to Europe and Africa. India had notified the first outbreak of avian influenza in 2006

Two days after being administered the Pfizer coronavirus jab, a Portugese health worker suffered a 'sudden death' at home on New Year's day

Non-essential shops and hospitality would have to remain closed, while primary and secondary schools would close from Tuesday for all pupils except vulnerable children and those whose parents are key workers

Patna airport had given the list of passengers who came from the UK between November 23 and December 31 and their addresses. But when health officials went to their houses to put them under quarantine, they found the people were missing

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

Defending Covaxin, the Bhart Biotech Chairman said that his company has tremendous experience in developing vaccines; more than 70 articles on data related to Covaxin have been published in various journals

Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others.  Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, says the government

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The phase-2 trials of Zydus Cadila's coronavirus vaccine had been conducted in around 1,000 healthy adults

The ICMR head emphasised that the scientists at ICMR have been successfully able to culture the UK strain and the efficacy of Covaxin against it will be further tested in days to come

Flight bookings for travel between India and the UK have started. Air India said in a tweet that \"Booking for Air India flights between India & UK is open now\"

Coronavirus pandemic: In December, the UK government reported a variant, which was referred to as SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01. This variant is not phylogenetically related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus

The research body said vero cell lines were used by the scientists of ICMR-NIV to culture the UK-variant of the virus

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