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An intensive care unit in India. Credit: AP A Covid variant first discovered in India, also referred to as a "double mutant" variant, could be behind the country's deepening Covid crisis, the ministry of health has admitted. Dubbed the India variant, B.1.617 was first found in March, and has 15 mutations compared to the original virus. It comes as seven cases of the India variant of Covid-19 were identified in Northern Ireland.The cases, confirmed on Thursday, are the first of the variant in the province to be identified in the province. Relatives of a person who died of Covid-19 mourn out...

Thursday May 6, 2021, 6:59 PM Credit: PA Health experts "haven't seen any hint" of a Covid variant that can fully evade the effectiveness of vaccines, a leading scientist has said. Sharon Peacock, head of the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and professor of public health and microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said it could be the case that coronavirus mutates to become less infectious - though she warned it could take years for it to become like the common cold. Asked whether a variant will emerge somewhere across the globe that is resistant to current vaccines, Prof Peaco...

Indian Covid-19 variant likely to be declared 'variant of concern' - with Bolton set for surge testing Three closely-related variants first detected in India and since found in the UK are being monitored by Public Health England Updated Queues at a Greater Manchester testing centre (Image: Manchester Evening News) For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in ...

CAMBRIDGE (REUTERS) - Regular booster vaccines against the coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus' genomes said. The coronavirus, which has killed 2.65 million people globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, mutates around once every two weeks, slower than influenza or HIV, but enough to require tweaks to vaccines. Professor Sharon Peacock, who heads Covid-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK), which has sequenced half of all the coronavirus genomes mapped globally ...

EVERY adult in the UK could have had the vaccine by early June as Boris Johnson faces continued pressure to lift lockdown early.The government is set