Israel health ministry says around 200 contracted new Covid sub-variant JN.1

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The horrific images of India's deadly second wave, which hit the country in April this year are still fresh in people's memory.

India details plan to combat omicron threat

The WHO's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has said that while the new covid variant omicron appears to be very transmissible, the right response is to be prepared and not panic.

Omicron around the world

The WHO has confirmed that the omicron is quite transmissible, yet not so lethal. The reason seems to be in the similarity of the genetic material to the virus which causes the common cold.

Did omicron pick up common cold mutation?

China reports cases of a new, more transmissible Delta strain, 'sub-lineage AY.4'

2021 may be coming to an end but the pandemic isn't. The 'deadliest' variant of the Wuhan Virus has just been discovered. Scientists are describing it as 'horrific'. There are fears this variant may even escape vaccine-induced immunity. Palki Sharma has a report.

Gravitas: New Variant of Wuhan Virus discovered

COVID-19: Will vaccines work against the Omicron variant? Here's what experts say

A new Coronavirus strain has been identified in Israel and a bid to secure more Pfizer vaccines has hit a snag this week over political infighting.

New COVID-19 strain detected in Israel, Pfizer vaccine purchase delayed

Several provinces are imposing fresh restrictions amid a rise in new COVID-19 variant cases and the country has been witnessing a spike in number of cases related to the UK and Brazilian variants of Coronavirus.

New COVID-19 variant cases overwhelms Canadian hospitals

A new study has found that a highly infectious variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the United Kingdom is between 30 to 100 per cent more deadly than previous strains.

Study finds UK COVID-19 variant has higher mortality rate

As India edges closer towards taming COVID, the west is overwhelmed. 7 new variants have emerged in the US. The UK is still under lockdown and in France, only 1 vaccine dose is being administered. WION's Palki Sharma tells you how the west is still struggling with the Wuhan Virus.

Gravitas: The West is struggling with Wuhan Virus

Another COVID-19 variant with a potentially worrying set of mutations has been detected in the UK, which is considered to be over 70% more deadly. This variant is known as 'B1525'.

32 cases of new COVID-19 variant 'B1525' found in UK

The UK variant of the deadly Coronavirus has now mutated yet again. Public health officials in the UK are currently investigating the cases of the Coronavirus with some worrying genetic changes.

UK finds more Coronavirus cases with 'concerning' mutation