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NAGPUR: Thanks to the rapid whole genome sequencing (WGS) done by CSIR-Neeri, the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza and Coronavirus Data (GISAID) has published the SARS-CoV-2 WGS of 500 Covid positive samples.

Arunachal Pradesh also demarcated separately, Santanu Sen tells RS

The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said the continent is now entering a “plausible endgame” to the pandemic and that the number of coronavirus deaths is now starting to plateau

Europe could enter ‘long period of Covid tranquility’ due to high vaccination rates, WHO says; record 1.33 million UK long Covid patients

The four sub-variants of Omicron collectively account for 93 per cent of all Covid specimens collected in the past month, says WHO

Disease prevention with COVID-appropriate behaviour and vaccination is still necessary

The 36 volunteers aged 18 to 29, who had never had Covid, were deliberately infected with a small dose of the virus

Omicron BA.2 is more transmissible than BA.1, says a study conducted by Statens Serum Institut, which conducts infectious disease and biological threat surveillance for the Danish government. "Several countries, including Denmark, have observed the two Omicron sub variants: BA.1 and BA.2. In Denmark the latter has rapidly replaced the former…

UN health agency says initial data shows BA.2 is a little more infectious than earlier versions of Omicron.