70 per cent of total fatalities from the coronavirus have been registered in men while 45 per cent of all coronavirus deaths in the country have been reported in those below 60 years of age, said Union Health Ministry.
Updated Dec 30, 2020 | 13:55 IST
The Ministry of Home Affairs has mandated that States and UTs may impose local restrictions in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan briefs the media | Photo Credit: IANS
New Delhi: In the wake of New Year celebration, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Wednesday wrote a letter to all the states and union territories asking them to curb crowding. Bhushan also directed the States and UTs to keep a tab on all the events that could be a potential superspreader.
So far, 107 samples have undergone genome sequencing in India, and 20 UK returnees have tested positive for the new more infectious coronavirus strain.
Vaccines which are in pipeline will work against the new variants of SARS-CoV-2
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Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 11:17 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 30: In a major development this week, Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) has been formed with 10 Government laboratories to ascertain the current status of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01) in the country. Its function is also to establish a sentinel surveillance for early detection of genomic variants with public health implication and to determine the genomic variants in the unusual events/trends.
This apart, the number of active cases is less than 2.7 lakhs after six months and declining further.
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COVID-19 vaccines will work against new variants of the virus and there is no evidence that current vaccines will fail to protect against the SARS-CoV-2 mutants reported from the UK or South Africa, the government said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, Principal Scientific Advisor K Vijay Raghavan said so far it has not been found that the new variant increases the severity of the disease. There is no evidence that current vaccines will fail to protect against COVID 19 variants reported from UK or SA. Most vaccines do target the Spike protein, in which there are changes in the variants but vaccines stimulate our immune system to produce a wide range of protective antibodies, he said.