Latest News Live Updates: Delhi Reports 96 COVID-19 Cases In 24 Hours, Lowest In Nearly 9 Months Latest News Live Updates: Delhi Reports 96 COVID-19 Cases In 24 Hours, Lowest In Nearly 9 Months Latest News Live Updates: Delhi s overall cases have shot to 6,34,325, of whom 6.2 lakh have fought off the highly infectious disease taking the city s overall recovery rate to 98 per cent.
Latest News Live Updates: On April 30, Delhi had recorded 76 new cases. (File)
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This is the first time that Delhi, which has seen and surmounted three waves of coronavirus infections, logged less than 100 since April last year, when India was still in first phase of the nationwide lockdown to control the pandemic.
COVID-19 cases are going down in San Francisco, but doctors are not letting their guard down. There is concern as new variants of the virus have been spotted across the globe, causing a deadly spread.
Luz Pena: Do you project that as the virus continues to mutate, those vaccines will also have to change?
Dr. Chiu: There will potentially be an emergence of variance that will require the vaccine to be modified and perhaps a new vaccine will have to be created and tested for use against these new variances.
Luz Pena: How would you compare the variant that was found here in California to the one found in the U.K.?
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A group of researchers in Britain has warned that it will take months before mass vaccination programs have an impact in controlling the pandemic and that the threshold for herd immunity may never be reached because new variants of the virus are so contagious.
New COVID-19 variant found in more than one-third of Cedars-Sinai patients, new study shows
The Cedars-Sinai findings did not indicate whether the strain is more deadly than current forms of the coronavirus.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) A new strain of the coronavirus has been found in more than one-third of COVID-19 cases among Cedars-Sinai patients and may be contributing to the acceleration of the recent surge of cases across Southern California, according to a study released this week.
The strain, which the investigators designated as CAL.20C, is believed to be in part responsible for the dramatic increase in cases over the last two months. The Cedars-Sinai findings did not indicate whether the strain is more deadly than current forms of the coronavirus.
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The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is likely to protect against a more infectious variant of the virus discovered in Britain which has spread around the world, according to results of further lab tests released on Wednesday.
The encouraging results from an analysis of blood of participants in trials are based on more extensive analysis than those released by the U.S. drugmaker last week.