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Coronavirus genomic surveillance mechanism in India New Delhi, Dec 07: A consortium of national laboratories based in four cities – Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Pune – is continuously conducting genomic surveillance of coronavirus, which has helped to sequence more and more samples of the virus. The focus of the …

What we know about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 so far Update on Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant New Delhi, 29th November 2021. On 26 November 2021, the world health organization (WHO) designated variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus …