: Top 10 Covid-19 updates: Delta variant could account for 90% of new cases by August, says EU agency #IndiaNEWS The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Wednesday said that the Delta

Top 10 Covid-19 updates: Delta variant could account for 90% of new cases by August, says EU agency #IndiaNEWS
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Wednesday said that the Delta variant could account for 90% of new Covid-19 cases in the European Union by August-end, reported AFP.India reached a grim milestone on Wednesday as the total number of coronavirus cases in the country crossed the three-crore mark. Since the pandemic began in January 2020, India has recorded 3,00,28,709 infections. As many as 50,848 cases were added over the past 24 hours.Kerala has reported about 14,372 excess deaths between January 1 and May 31 when compared to the same period between 2015 and 2019. A review of the monthly break-up showed that the excess deaths in Kerala were mostly reported in MayDr Anurag Agarwal, Director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, said that there was no evidence to suggest that the Delta variant will cause the possible third coronavirus wave, reported NDTV. He, however, cautioned against lowering guard on the pandemic. Vaccines made by pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Pfizer are effective against Delta and Kappa variants, first discovered in India, a study by Oxford University showed.Around 40 cases of the Delta plus variant of the coronavirus have been found in Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, the Union health ministry said. Besides these states, Karnataka also recorded its first case of...Read more

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