COVID-19 update: Why did UK call BA.2 a ‘variant under investigation’?

At least 40 countries have detected this omicron sub-lineage since November 17, 2021    

COVID is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?

Seychelles needs to conduct urgent genome sequencing and surveillance to see what contribution variants of concern are making and whether the …

Why other African countries need to guard against South Africa COVID-19 variant

WHO and African Centres for Disease Control to strengthen genomic surveillance capacities

COVID-19: Beware of ‘Mexican variant’

Down To Earth speaks to Saumitra Das, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in West Bengal about the possible role of a …

Government experts hint variants responsible for COVID-19 case surge in India

India is not going to sequence 5 per cent samples due to high caseload, says National Centre for Disease Control

UK, South African, Brazilian: A virologist explains each COVID-19 variant, what they mean for the pandemic

The take-home message is that variants will emerge, and we need to closely monitor their spread

Dismal figures: ‘India sequenced less than 1% of total COVID-19 samples in nearly 3 months’

Lack of funds, difficulty in getting samples among reasons for poor numbers

Health ministry confirms 2 more coronavirus variants in India

Uptick in cases in 5 states cannot be linked to these variants as of now, said NITI Aayog member VK Paul