Tag: Variant

New local COVID-19 infections more than doubled in China's southeastern province of Fujian, health authorities said on Tuesday, prompting officials to quickly roll out measures including travel restrictions to halt the spread of the virus.

The mu coronavirus variant has been marked as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization and has spread across Chile, Peru and parts of the U.S. and Europe.

The Delta variant is responsible for 95.8% of the COVID-19 infections in Sri Lanka at present, revealed the researchers at the University of Sri Jayawardenapura.

The World Health Organization said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January.

Already exhausted from the rapid spread of the Delta variant which has infected over 60,000 people in recent weeks, Sri Lanka’s health officials have gone on alert over a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa and several other countries.

A new coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and a number of other countries, with concerns that it could be more infectious and evade vaccines.

The Immunology and Molecular Medicine Department of Sri Jayewardenepura University suspects that the vast spread of COVID variants would be a 'Super Delta variant'.

New Zealand has extended its national lockdown by at least four days as it tries to contain the highly infectious Delta variant.

Health experts in the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic yesterday said that the Alpha variant which had spread across Sri Lanka especially during the second wave was now slowly moving out as the Delta variant had now become the dominant variant with a rapid rise in infections.

Having two doses of Covid vaccine remains the best way to protect against the Delta variant, first identified in India and now dominant in the UK.