KP.2 Covid variant appears more transmissible, but not virulent: Doctors
The new KP.2 Covid-19 variant appears to be more transmissible, but is not virulent, said doctors on Monday, amid reports of 91 cases being detected in Maharashtra.
The new KP.2 Covid-19 variant appears to be more transmissible, but is not virulent, said doctors on Monday, amid reports of 91 cases being detected in Maharashtra.
Even as the 91 cases of new FLiRT Covid-19 variants, accounting for more than a third of cases in the US, have reportedly been detected in Maharashtra, there is nothing to worry immediately, a top expert said on Sunday.
The new Covid-19 variant 'FLiRT', which is spreading fast in the US, is capable of evading the immune system due to a trans substitution of amino acids between two spike proteins, the experts said on Sunday.
The report said within two weeks of getting the vaccine, only 136 people had some problems.
The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has for the past four years been a tangled web of politics, power struggles, and international finger-pointing.
In a relief for West Bengal, swab samples of Covid-19 patients sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBG) in Kalyani for genome sequencing were tested JN.1 negative, a sub-variant of Covid.
As many as 628 COVID-19 cases were recorded in the country during the past 24 hours, as per the data issued by the Union Health Ministry on Monday.
Markers of brain injury continue to be present in the blood many months after Covid-19 infection, despite inflammation blood tests being normal, finds a study.
With a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 patients caused by JN.1, a sub-variant of novel coronavirus, in the country experts have advised people above 60 years with comorbidities must wear masks to prevent the virus that had ravaged the world during 2020 and 2021.
As many as 640 people tested positive for Covid-19 in India during the past 24 hours, as per data of the Union Health Ministry on Friday
