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$Britains Health Secretary Matt Hancock attends a remote press conference to update the nation on the status of the Covid-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 23, 2020. - Britain on Wednesday introduced restrictions on travel from South Africa over the spread of another new variant of coronavirus, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said. \Were placing immediate restrictions on travel from South Africa,\ Hancock said, adding that two cases of the \highly concerning\ new virus strain had been discovered in Britain. (AFP)$ World

UK quarantines travelers from South Africa as one more Covid variant...

Hancock said the new variant has mutated further' than the one that recently prompted the British government to tighten...

23 Dec 2020 10:26 PM IST

When the researchers tested the sera of 20 participants who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine they found that it could act against the engineered coronavirus variants. (Photo:AFP)

Pfizer vaccine may protect against new mutations of coronavirus

Owing to the evolution of the coronavirus, scientists have called for the continuous monitoring of changes in the virus...

9 Jan 2021 4:38 AM IST

As per the Union health ministry, the presence of foreign mutant variants of Covid-19 in the country is low. (Photo: PTI)

COVID-19 situation going from bad to worse: Centre

271 deaths and 56,211 cases were detected in the last 24 hours

31 March 2021 6:52 AM IST

The arrival of the latest South African variant indicates that India has, at present, all the three variants: B.1.1.7 which was first found in the UK; B.1.351, which is now spreading in South Africa; and P.1, discovered in Brazil. (AFP PHOTO /NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES/HANDOUT)

AA Edit | Covid-19 variants: India not out of the woods yet

Experts and scientists fear that all three South African, UK and Brazil variants have a tendency to spread faster than...

19 Feb 2021 4:12 AM IST