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Viruses mutate over time to adapt to their environment and improve their survival. Over the course of the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has mutated enough to

No vaccine is perfect, however, and breakthrough COVID-19 infections are possible.

The delta variant has become the predominant strain in the US. New variants will likely continue to appear as coronavirus evolves.

The Rockefeller Foundation Updates Making Sense of Variants: They All Deserve Attention. A Few Merit Concern. Careful Surveillance and Study of Sars-cov-2 Variants Will Help Determine the Public Health Threats They Pose and the Mitigation Efforts They Require SARS-CoV-2 has already mutated since it was first identified and will continue to do so. Robust global genomic sequencing is the best tool for tracking existing variants and detecting new ones. This information enables public health offici...

The second wave of coronavirus was triggered by many factors ranging from lax precautions to the amalgamation of new COVID variants that surfaced in India. With yet another new and hybrid strain detected in parts of Vietnam, it is of utmost importance that we stand on guard and be prepared for anything and everything.

Thursday, May 20, 2021 PHMSA terminates Stay of Enforcement and Notice of Enforcement Discretion related to COVID-19.  PHMSA convenes public meeting on natural gas pipeline leak detection and repair.  DOT increases maximum civil penalties for pipeline safety violations.  DOT removes guidance and enforcement procedures and streamlines rulemaking procedures.  DOT initiates review of regulations.  PHMSA revises proposed information collections for the Gas Transmission and Gathering ...

2. Suspected Covid bodies wash up in Ganges Bloated, decomposing bodies, suspected to be of people who succumbed to Covid-19, washed up on Monday on the banks of the Ganga at Bihars Buxar, exposing the scale of Indias pandemic crisis. Per the district administration, around 30 bodies were seen floating at the Mahadev Ghat situated near Chausa town — on Bihars border with Uttar Pradesh — and later piling up on the banks. (Resident villagers claim they saw at least 150 corpses.) "We were aler...

Why WHO called Indian variant of SARS-CoV-2 a global concern Prabhash K Dutta Replay Video Launching a "Together for India" campaign, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday upgraded its concern over the Indian variant of the SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. The WHO has dubbed the Indian Covid-19 variant as a "variant of global concern". It is the same variant that was detected in Maharashtra with double mutations. It is now in the same category as the var...

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