SARS-CoV-2

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Delhi Reports First Case of COVID-19 Variant From South Africa

Strain from South Africa had been detected earlier in...

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Coronavirus Jumped From Bats To Humans With Little Genetic Change

SARS-CoV-2 came with a ready-made ability to infect humans...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the parliament house to attend the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi

India Kicks off Phase 2 of Vaccination Drive, Co-WIN Opens for Public Registration

The Wire Staff 01/03/2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inoculated with the first...

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India’s Genome Sequencing Program Is Finally Good To Go – So What’s the Hold Up?

Priyanka Pulla 28/02/2021

India's newly launched programme to widely and rapidly sequence...

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Against New Variants, WHO Urges Countries To Ramp up Genomic Surveillance

The Wire Staff 20/02/2021

Genomic sequencing of the virus will inform scientists about...

Brazil's President Bolsonaro leaves Supreme Court in Brasilia

Brazil, Country With ‘Worst COVID-19 Response’, Confronts Threat of New Variant

Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa 13/02/2021

Brazilian scientists are short of resources to track the...

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With an Eye on the Future, India Needs More Cryo-Electron Microscopes

Chinmaya K.V. 31/01/2021

'If we want to prepare for the next pandemic,...