Johannesburg: While Covid cases in South Africa driven by the super mutant Omicron variant have surged 255 per cent in the last week, the infections are showing milder symptoms than seen in the last three waves, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the WHO, Africa currently accounted for 46 per cent of […]
Hyderabad: A latest study on Omicron from South Africa by local researchers has indicated that there is a significant surge in Covid reinfections and the new variant has the ability to evade the immunity developed by individuals from a prior infection. The study, published in MedRxiV, the preprint online archive of BMJ Yale and Cold […]
For the first time in India, four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the Brazil variant in the country, the health minister has said.
AstraZeneca said it had not been able to properly ascertain the effect of the vaccine on severe disease and hospitalisation caused by the South African variant.
In a yet-to-be peer reviewed research, scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch, tested the ability of blood serum from 20 individuals immunised with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to neutralise coronavirus engineered to carry the new mutations
South African strain called as ‘501.V2’ could not only be more infectious than the UK strain but has the potential to have more resistance to Covid vaccines being rolled-out
