New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of circulating strains of COVID-19 in India.
›The antidote to 3rd wave of Covid is combination of social distancing, health infra and massive vaccination outreach
The antidote to 3rd wave of Covid is combination of social distancing, health infra and massive vaccination outreach
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The antidote to 3rd wave of Covid is combination of social distancing, health infra and massive vaccination outreachBy
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The key question at this juncture is: will there be a third wave, and if yes, how should the government and citizens gear up to confront that? The antidote to such a wave, scientists and virologists say, lies in a combination of measures such as social distancing, masking, ramping up of health infrastructure and last-mile vaccination with a sense of urgency.
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India, which is going through a vicious third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that looks like lasting till July or August, needs to ramp up vaccinations and simultaneously widen its testing network so that those who test positive can be isolated thereby allowing some breathing space for health care facilities to regroup.
updated: May 10 2021, 16:10 ist
The Indian variant of SARS-CoV-2 (B1.617) causes worse lung disease in hamsters than earlier versions of the coronavirus, the Indian Council of Medical Research has said in a new study days after the Union Health Ministry described it as a “variant of concern.”
Carried out on hamsters, the ICMR study shows maximal body weight loss and higher viral load in animals infected with B1.617, causing pronounced lung lesions in hamsters compared to the B1 variant.
This demonstrates the pathogenic or disease-causing potential of B1.617 in an animal model as the virus has been reported from human samples in at least 17 states and union territories with a significant presence in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi and Gujarat.