New Covid-19 variant News

The total number of COVID-19-related deaths in Kerala since the outbreak three years ago has now reached a staggering 72,059, with the recent fatalities adding to the grim toll.

Rajesh Tope said that the elderly man and his wife who had been in Mumbai tested positive for coronavirus in Gujarat last month.

Known as 'IHU', the B.1.640.2 variant has been reported by researchers at institute IHU Mediterranee Infection in at least 12 cases, and has been linked to travel to African country Cameroon.

So far, it hasn't been spotted in any other country IHU hasn't been labelled a variant under investigation by the World Health Organization Because of its large number of mutations, it can prove to be very infectious

"In the coming days and weeks, we should expect more community (local) cases and rapid doubling of cases. This is again a process we need to go through, in order to live with COVID-19," Ministry of Health said.

12,133 Omicron cases have been recorded in the UK on Sunday. UK reported 82,886 new coronavirus cases, taking the total cases in the country to 11,361,387. The country registered a further 45 coronavirus-related deaths.

Two Brazilians have tested positive for the Omicron COVID-19 variant. It's the first reported case in Latin America. The travelers had landed at Sao Paulo`s Guarulhos international airport.

South Africa has confirmed around 100 specimens as B.1.1.529. The high number of spike mutations are concerning, say experts South Africa was also the first country to detect the Beta variant,

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said in a statement that 22 cases of variant B.1.1.529 had been recorded following genomic sequencing