How can India contain the second wave?
When do you think the second wave is likely to peak? And when we see such a peak, what do you think will be the number of daily cases? Gautam…
Category: Coronavirus variant
India will add four million more cases by May 1, says Giridhara Babu
The increase in daily cases has been very steep — from over 12,200 cases on March 1 to over 1,26,000 on April 7. The doubling time has reduced from 504…
What is driving the second wave in India?
The rate of increase in cases in India during March has been faster than at any other time during the pandemic, which is also reflected in the modelling studies by…
Will intranasal vaccines confer sterilising immunity?
Developed by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the vaccine has been licensed to Bharat Biotech to carry out human clinical trials, manufacture the vaccine and distribute them…
Is India witnessing the beginning of the second wave?
From below 5%, the test positivity rate has suddenly shot up in Maharashtra — the seven-day average test positivity rate in the State as on February 26 was 9.5%; the…
Moderna, Pfizer vaccines neutralise variants encoding mutations E484K or N501Y but with less potency
The results were published in the journal Nature. Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines showed no significant difference in neutralising activity. Individuals immunized with either Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines produce closely…
ACTREC’s automated tool makes SARS-CoV-2 genome mutation analysis easy
The IPD tool has been already designed to perform analysis of diverse genomic datasets, which came handy while analysing diverse data sets of SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been uploaded to the…
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…
