Molecular Biology Consortium based at Berkeley Lab s Advanced Light Source (ALS) claims to have discovered an antibody that can neutralise all known SARS-CoV-2 strains, including the new mutants.
India s Covaxin found to neutralise 617 variant of COVID-19: Dr Fauci PTI
Updated : Apr 28, 2021, 1:24 pm IST So, despite the real difficulty that we re seeing in India, vaccination could be a very, very important antidote against this, Fauci added
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (AP)
Washington: Covaxin, India s home-grown COVID-19 vaccine, has been found to neutralise the 617 variant of the deadly virus, White House chief medical adviser and America s top pandemic expert Dr Anthony Fauci said.
Fauci was speaking to reporters during a conference call on Tuesday.
This is something where we re still gaining data on a daily basis. But the most recent data, was looking at convalescent Sera of COVID-19 cases and people who received the vaccine used in India, the Covaxin. It was found to neutralise the 617 variants, he said.
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Of 15,000 virus sequences, 11% comprise of UK, SA and Brazil VOCs; B.1.1.7 dominates in India
With six variants of concern (VOC) of coronavirus that is dominating global topography currently, India is grappling with three particular variants, i.e. the UK, Brazil, and South Africa, since the second COVID-19 wave struck the country. The lineages B.1.1.7 (called UK variant), B.1.351 (South Africa variant), and P.1 (Brazil variant) have been detected in India.
Last year at the time when the virus broke its loose pan-India, Maharashtra was hit badly with most reported cases of which almost close to 20 per cent cases were showing the trace of double mutant - an Indian variant called B.1.617 lineage.