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22.10.2021 / 18:47

Covid third wave in India: Here's what scientists predict amid festive season

New Delhi: India is unlikely to see a Covid wave like the devastating second one unless there is a new immune escaping variant but the lower number of cases does not necessarily mean the pandemic is now endemic, several experts said on Friday.

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India's second Covid wave seems to have flattened but won’t end before July: Virologist Shahid Jameel

New Delhi: India’s second COVID-19 wave seems to have flattened but the climb down will be a more prolonged, long drawn-out process than the first and will possibly run till July, eminent virologist Shahid Jameel said here on Tuesday.Though the new variants of the virus may partly be responsible for the explosion in the number of cases, there is no indication the mutant versions are more lethal, added the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, amid mounting worries about what is fuelling the second wave in India.Addressing an online event organised by the Indian Express, Jameel noted that it is a little too early to say if the Covid wave has peaked.“The curve may have flattened but the other side of the peak is

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Mutant strains, elections and carelessness could have led to Covid surge: Scientists

PTI, virologists Shahid Jameel and T Jacob John are certain that not following Covid-19 safety protocol and a sluggish vaccination drive could be to blame.Jameel said that the interplay of mutants and vaccines over the next couple of months will decide the future of Covid in India and the world.“The intensity of the surge also suggests that there were a huge number of susceptible people after the first wave," said Jameel, who is the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University.The fact that people lowered the guard and didn’t follow Covid protocols after the first wave was over is “certainly one valid explanation" for the surge, he said.The Centre has warned that the next four weeks are critical and people’s

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'Double mutant' Covid detected with hundreds of samples found carrying strain

Covid mutant has been detected with hundreds of samples carrying strain in India.A senior government official said the novel coronavirus was found in 206 samples in the worst-hit western state of Maharashtra.The new variant was also detected in nine samples in the capital New Delhi, the director of the National Centre for Disease Control, Sujeet Kumar Singh, told a news conference.A double mutation is "two mutations coming together in the same virus", virologist Shahid Jameel explains."A double mutation in the key areas of the virus's spike protein may increase these risks and allow the virus to escape the immune system and make it more infectious," he adds.It comes as 771 other coronavirus variants have been detected in samples from 18

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Covid variants with 2 specific mutations may evade antibodies: Virologist Shahid Jameel

NEW DELHI : Variants of the novel coronavirus carrying two specific mutations in their spike protein may evade antibodies and make vaccines less effective, according to eminent virologist Shahid Jameel, who says the need of the hour is to improve surveillance for "homegrown" lineages of the virus.Jameel, Director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University in Haryana, said these two mutations would lead to a "drastic change" in the structure of the part of the spike protein that binds with antibodies, making vaccines less effective against such variants.The spike protein of the coronavirus enables it to bind to the ACE2 receptor on host cells -- a process which studies have show to be crucial for the virus to enter the cells

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Experts question govt's claim of Covaxin efficacy against new coronavirus strain

Covaxin can target mutated coronavirus strains and maybe used us a "backup", as they asked for the scientific basis for the claim and for the vaccine's safety and efficacy.The country's drugs regulator Sunday granted emergency use approval to Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield and also to indigenously developed Covaxin even though not enough data on the latter's efficacy and safety was available, which triggered a debate.Also Read | A year on, China is shaking up the worldNoted virologist Shahid Jameel said he does not believe that eventually Covaxin would turn out to be safe and show more than 70 per cent efficacy."I say this based on the platform, which is widely used and Bharat Biotech's own track record of successfully making inactivated

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There may not be a second peak of Covid-19 in India, say experts

New Delhi: Healthcare experts have said that there may not be a second peak of COVID-19 in the country, and even if it occurs, it is unlikely to be as strong as the first one.The comments come as the country's COVID-19 caseload surpassed the one crore mark, though the number of daily cases and daily fatalities have been continuously coming down.Noted virologist Dr Shahid Jameel said India's curve for daily cases is on a downward slope since a peak in mid-September."At this time, we are getting about 25,500 cases daily compared to over 93,000 cases per day in mid-September. I believe the worst is over.

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Coronavirus may remain active in high temperatures for 6-12 hours

Temperatures in the high 40s Celsius (as in India these days) would not make much difference to the coronavirus. It may still be active at these temperatures for six to 12 hours, said leading virologist Shahid Jameel, who is also CEO of Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance.

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Nationwide lockdown will no longer help in Covid-19 fight: Virologist

New Delhi: The nationwide lockdown will no longer help India in its fight against COVID-19, and in its place community-driven containment, isolation and quarantine strategies have to be brought into play, leading virologist Shahid Jameel said.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0