SARSCoV2

An epidemiological working definition will be pragmatic and helpful to assess the magnitude of re-infection in most population and resource constrained settings. Two positive tests at an interval of…

When the researchers created colder conditions, they found that the virus replicated faster than when infections were carried out at 37 degrees Celsius to mimic the lower lung environment. Natural…

People having SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, may have protection against future infection for a few months, a research published in the JAMA Internal Medicine showed. The findings could…

Has the possibility of a lab-leak been ruled out? Did the virus directly jump from bats to humans? The story so far: After several months of ay, concerns over access,…

WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assessment in a summation on Tuesday The SARS-CoV-2 virus was unlikely to have leaked from a laboratory in…

The tool, designed by ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, is handy to analyse SARS-CoV-2 genome information uploaded to the GISAID database An automated computational tool – Infectious Pathogen Detector (IPD) –…

On Sunday, millions of people across the country will tune in for Super Bowl LV. Whether or not this … [+] will fuel the Covid-19 pandemic depends on whether people…

Scientists are primarily concerned with the emergence of three specific variants that are likely to spread easily. A new variant of the coronavirus emerged Thursday in the United States,…

Agence France-PresseJan 27, 2021 13:55:59 IST The announcement that the coronavirus strain sweeping Britain could be deadly as well as transmissible has raised fresh concerns about the variant…

Hyderabad: The SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, has shown a mutation, N440K, in 34 per cent of the samples analysed in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka. The mutation was found…

As part of various initiatives towards mitigating COVID-19, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) signed an MoU with Clevergene, a Bengaluru-based company, for sequencing the SARS-CoV-2 genome. It is expected…

The mutation seems to provide a favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say   In a preliminary report posted on December 19, Dr. Andrew Rambaut…

The study noted that the Pfizer–BioNTech shot worked against 15 additional possible mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A nurse holds a phial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy’s Hospital…

Hyderabad: Sars-Cov-2 virus samples have been found in the hospital air of Covid-19 wards but not in non-Covid 19 wards, according to a CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology study.…

India has successfully cultured the new coronavirus strain, which originated in the UK, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Saturday. In a tweet, the ICMR claimed that…

The new variant came to the attention of researchers in December, when it began to turn up frequently in samples from parts of southern England In recent days, the…

Written by Anuradha Mascarenhas | Pune | Updated: December 7, 2020 12:06:50 pm According to the researchers, Molnupiravir is the first oral anti-viral drug to quickly block SARS-CoV 2. (Representational…