The new variant may possibly be resistant to monoclonal antibody treatment.

AIIMS chief said that schools need to open because the young generation is getting affected “in terms of knowledge”.

At least 21 cases of the Delta plus variant have been found in samples collected from Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri, Jalgaon, Mumbai, Palghar, Sindhudurg and Thane regions of Maharashtra.

The Nepal variant can make vaccines and antibody drugs less effective, and increase the risk of reinfection.

Whether this mutated variant is more infectious, and the degree to which it can be implicated in Vietnam’s current surge of infections, is not yet certain.

The 20-something woman said she did not allow her two children to go near her mother-in-law and provided her food from a distance, which led the elderly woman to feel discriminated against and thus made her upset.

Preliminary data suggests that while two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are 88 percent protective against symptomatic infection with the B.1.617.2 variant, a single dose is only 33 percent effective.

A video is going viral on the internet where a woman slapped home guard on his mask checking duty.

Not a single pandemic in human history has been traced to plants.

During the pandemic women were more likely to lose their jobs than men. This loss had a major impact on women’s economic freedoms as well as their social freedoms.