Alpha variant News
The studey was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
The study analysed more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases in the UK confirmed by virus genome sequencing.
The study found that there is a two-fold increased risk of hospitalisation from Delta versus Alpha variant infections.
Delta variant of coronavirus has been detected in at least 80 per cent of the samples
The Alpha variant was first detected in the UK last year
The doctor, despite being fully vaccinated, got infected with both Alpha and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2, and the RMRC lab detected the double infection in the patient in May.
This is one of the first documented cases of co-infection with two SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
The presence of two different strains of the virus -- Alpha (B117), which originated in the UK, and Beta (B1351), first detected in South Africa was detected in the 90 years old patient
Country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has stopped selling one of its popular hatchbacks Ritz in both domestic and international markets.
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