Virus Sequences News Today

live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. its newsday. its 8am in singapore, and 7pm in washington where the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle — for the first time in 100 years the house failed to elect a speaker in the first ballot. the house has now adjourned until wednesday after three rounds of votes. the latest saw the republican kevin mccarth...

live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. its newsday. its 7am in singapore, and 6pm in washington where the first day of the new us congress has been full of drama. after the swearing in of new members, the house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle — for the first time in 100 years the house failed to elect a speaker. the house has now adjourned until wednesday after three rounds of votes. the latest saw the republican kevin mccarthy fall 16 votes shor...

I spoke to professor andy pekocz, a virologist atjohns hopkins university in the us and asked him if he thought the restrictions on chinese travellers actually work. where much better off focusing on the core problem, but we really want to know its more about the types of variants circling in china and things we can do to help get a better insight into that is really the important thing at this time. professor, we have heard from the world health organization havent we, who have consistently ask...

Travel restrictions or testing programmes really do nothing more than often times delay the inevitable. they are never perfect we are much better off focusing on the core problem, which is what we really want to know them of the types of variants that are circulating in china and things that we can do to help get a better insight into that is really the important thing at this time. professor, we have heard from the front to help organisation who are consistently asking for more data, more trans...

In south africa, thank you _ taken about us. minister for tourism in south africa, thank you so - taken about us. minister for tourism in south africa, thank you so much i in south africa, thank you so much for speaking to us on bbc1 news. thank you. as weve been hearing, the world health organization has classed this latest mutation as a "variant of concern" and given it the name "omicron". we can speak now to dr catherine smallwood — whe is the senior emergencies officer and covid—i9 incid...

NEW DELHI: With six variants of concern (VOC) of coronavirus that is dominating global topography currently, India is grappling with three particular variants, i.e. the UK, Brazil, and South Africa, since the second Covid-19 wave struck the country. The lineages B.1.1.7 (called UK variant), B.1.351 (South Africa variant), and P.1 (Brazil variant) have been detected in India. Last year at the time when the virus broke its loose pan-India, Maharashtra was hit badly with most reported cases of w...

NEW DELHI: With six variants of concern (VOC) of coronavirus that is dominating global topography currently, India is grappling with three particular variants, i.e. the UK, Brazil, and South Africa, since the second Covid-19 wave struck the country. The lineages B.1.1.7 (called UK variant), B.1.351 (South Africa variant), and P.1 (Brazil variant) have been detected in India. Last year at the time when the virus broke its loose pan-India, Maharashtra was hit badly with most reported cases of w...