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United Nations/Geneva, June 1 The B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of the Covid-19, first identified in India, have been named as 'Kappa' and 'Delta' respectively by the WHO as it named various varia

Coronavirus variants of concern and variants of interest will now be named using a system similar to hurricane naming, wherein each variant gets assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet.

The new names would only be to aid public discussion using labels that were "non stigmatising" to the countries where they were first identified

- Advertisement - India — Days after the World Health Organization (WHO) designated it a variant of concern or VOC, Canadian health authorities are now considering the B.1.617 mutation of Covid-19 in the same category. The variant, which was first detected in India, was added to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s VOC list on Thursday. In its Outbreak Update, the agency said that it was “following the variants of concern first identified in the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has blamed several religious and political mass gathering events for fuelling Indias dramatic surge in new cases and deaths.The spread of B1617 and other variants (B117), coupled with low adherence to public ...

Religious, political gathering behind India’s COVID-19 resurgence: WHO By IANS|   Posted by Sameer  |   Updated: 13th May 2021 1:30 pm IST Seers taking a dip in River Ganges as a part of last royal bath. (PTI photo) Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has blamed several religious and political mass gathering events for fuelling India’s dramatic surge in new cases and deaths. The spread of B1617 and other variants (B117), coupled with low adherence to public health and social ...

Religious, political gatherings behind Indias Covid resurgence: WHO India on Thursday reported 3,62,727 new Covid cases and 4,120 fatalities, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said Thursday May 13, 2021 12:19 PM, IANS Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has blamed several religious and political mass gathering events for fuelling Indias dramatic surge in new cases and deaths. The spread of B1617 and other variants (B117), coupled with low adherence to public health and soc...

Religious, political gathering behind India’s Covid resurgence, says WHO The exact contributions of each of these factors on increased transmission in India are not well understood, the global health agency said People purchase at a market on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr festival, in Patna on Thursday. ANI Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has blamed several religious and political mass gathering events for fuelling Indias dramatic surge in new cases and deaths. The spread of B1617 and...

Footprint of B.1.617 now spreads to 44 countries © Provided by Hindustan Times B.1.617 was first detected in India last October (HT_PRINT) Three lineages of a variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus first seen in India now account for 66% of all samples tested in the most recent 45 days, according to data from India submitted to a global repository (GISAID) even as other data submitted to the same repository indicates that the variant has now spread to several parts of the world with a rapid increas...