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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicDelta Plus

Topic: Delta Plus

45% of samples sequenced in India since January had Omicron, shows Covid lab network INSACOG

INSACOG, in its latest bulletin, revealed that nearly half of all Covid-19 samples sent for genomic sequencing in India since January this year have been identified as Omicron.

Mumbai reports first death due to Delta Plus Covid variant, second in Maharashtra

The 63-year-old woman was fully vaccinated and died in July. Her 6 close contacts have tested positive for Covid, of which two are infected with Delta+ variant, according to BMC.

Oxygen protocol, Covid care centre in each village: Worst-hit Maharashtra gears for 3rd wave

Mumbai: Maharashtra, one of the states worst hit by the pandemic, has been a bellwether for Covid-19 throughout, and is now preparing for a...

Govt asks 8 states, UTs to take up speedy containment measures in view of Delta Plus variant

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the variant has been detected in districts like Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Surat in Gujarat, Faridabad in Haryana and Bikaner in Rajasthan.

Covishield, Covaxin effective against Covid variants Alpha, Beta, Gamma & Delta, govt says

New Delhi: Forty-eight coronavirus cases of Delta Plus' variant have been detected from 45,000 samples sequenced so far in the country, with Maharashtra reporting...

Covid pandemic — Delta variant cases rise in Israel, most US deaths among the unvaccinated

ThePrint brings you some important global stories on the coronavirus pandemic.

Around 40 cases of Delta plus Covid variant reported in Maharashtra, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh

Health ministry Tuesday had announced the Delta variant as a 'variant of concern'. The three states have been advised to strengthen surveillance.

No sufficient data on Delta plus, virulence unknown: Maharashtra Covid task force member

Task force member Shashank Joshi said there is no sufficient data on Delta plus variant of concern to be alarmed except that Covid appropriate behaviour & vaccination must continue.

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No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.