Hyderabad: The natural immunity gained by individuals across the country through Covid infection during the successive Delta and Omicron waves is enough to thwart or dilute any future surge, developers of the noted SUTRA mathematical model for pandemics said. By rough estimates, close to 90% of the population in the country are likely to have […]
Hyderabad: The State government is likely to procure S-gene RT-PCR test kits that can be employed as a proxy test to detect the presence of the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 does not have an S-gene, which is also commonly known as S-gene dropout. Due to this specific character of the Omicron variant, […]