P.2 or B.1.1.28.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, however, has so far had very less prevalence, with less than 0.5% of the viral samples detected worldwide showing this strain.
The new findings support a WHO-led research mission that concluded SARS-CoV-2 most likely spilled over to humans from animals — either directly from a bat or via another mammal.
Researchers at Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention study 2.5 hours of restaurant CCTV footage to conclude close contact transmission did not lead to outbreak.
US's top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci said he would like to see medical records of lab workers who fell sick in China, but maintained Covid most likely jumped from animals to humans.
There have been growing demands to investigate whether the Covid pandemic was caused by a virus leak & if yes, was it owing to a biosecurity issue, or engineered to infect humans in the lab.
The study, by a British professor and a Norwegian scientist, claims that scientists took a natural coronavirus 'backbone' found in Chinese cave bats and spliced a new 'spike' onto it.
Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.
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.
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.
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