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COVID-19 in 2025  

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic spanning over three years claimed millions of lives worldwide and caused immense misery to the humanity. Rapid developments of vaccines...

Deltamicron : Delta-Omicron recombinant with hybrid genomes  

Cases of co-infections with two variants were earlier reported. Not much was known about viral recombination yielding viruses with hybrid genomes. Two recent studies report...

Omicron BA.2 Subvariant is More Transmissible

Omicron BA.2 subvariant seems to be more transmissible than BA.1. It also possesses immune-evasive properties that further reduce the protective effect of vaccination against...

Why Omicron Should be Taken Seriously

Evidences so far suggest that Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has high transmission rate but fortunately is low on virulence and is not usually leading...

Sotrovimab Approval in the UK: A Monoclonal Antibody Effective Against Omicron, may work for Future Variants as well

Sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody already approved for mild to moderate COVID-19 in several countries gets approval by MHRA in the UK. This antibody was intelligently designed...

How Omicron Variant of COVID-19 may have Arisen?

One of unusual and most intriguing feature of heavily mutated Omicron variant is that it acquired all the mutations in a single burst in a...

Omicron variant: UK and USA Authorities recommend Booster doses of COVID Vaccines for all aged 18 and above

In order to raise levels of protection across the population against the Omicron variant, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)1 of UK has...

SARS-CoV-2: How Serious is B.1.1.529 variant, now named Omicron

The B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24th November 2021. The first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen...

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