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Category: Coronavirus variant

Posted on January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

With hasty approval, India squanders an opportunity to build trust in COVID-19 vaccine

Transparency in the approval process is vital for gaining the trust of people so that they don’t hesitate to take the vaccine. If there is already some degree of anxiety…

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Posted on December 31, 2020

Should India be overly worried about the new coronavirus variant?

About 33,000 passengers from the U.K. had arrived at various airports in India between November 25 and December 23. Of them, 114 tested positive for the virus using RT-PCR. All…

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Posted on December 23, 2020December 30, 2020

N501Y mutation in SARS-CoV-2 virus causes increased infectivity, disease severity in mice

Of the many mutations found in the variant, the scientists have pointed out that the N501Y mutation increases the transmissibility of the variant in humans. Though no studies have so…

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Posted on December 22, 2020December 24, 2020

How the new coronavirus variant quickly accumulated 17 mutations

According to a preliminary report posted on December 19 by the COG-UK Consortium scientists, as of December 15, 1,623 variant genomes have been sequenced. In a December 21 tweet, COG-UK…

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Posted on December 21, 2020December 24, 2020

Emergence of a new coronavirus variant raises concerns

On Saturday, the UK imposed strict restrictions in greater London and much of the southeast of England to stop the spread of the variant, which has become one of the dominant…

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