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Science's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation Testing for COVID-19 at Johannesburg's airport in January. A variant of concern that arose in South Africa has spread around the world. PHOTO: GUILLEM SARTORIO/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES Last month, Gytis Dudas was tracking a concerning new coronavirus variant that had triggered an outbreak of COVID-19 in his native Lithuania and appeared sporadically elsewhere in Europe and in the United States. Exploring an international database of coronavirus genomes, Dudas found a crucial clue: One sample of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant...

Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh. File   | Photo Credit: WHO Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, also spoke about the importance of communities practising cough etiquette, hand hygiene and social-distancing in the fight against the disease. Adoption of COVID-19 appropriate behaviour is the best way to stop transmission of the virus and its variants, Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region, said in New Delhi as she underlined that efforts to test, trace, isolate, and treat need to be scaled up. In...

URL copied Adopting COVID-19 appropriate behaviour best way to stop transmission of virus, its variants: WHO Adoption of COVID-19 appropriate behaviour is the best way to stop transmission of the virus and its variants, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, said as she underlined that efforts to test, trace, isolate, and treatment need to be scaled up. In an interview to PTI on the recent surge in coronavirus cases, Singh also spoke about the importance of communities practising cough etiquette, hand hygiene and social distancing in the fight agai...