The spurt in coronavirus cases reported out of China has triggered global alarm. India’s Health Ministry has issued a directive to States to send positive samples to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) to check for new, concerning strains. The Health Minister, too, has called for a review meeting of …

Almost two weeks since its capture and relocation to the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR), the elephant Pandalur Makhna-2 (PM2) is acclimatising to the new habitat, officials said. Since its release into the Congress Mattam in the MTR, PM2 has spent the last 12 days exploring the place. The elephant was …

The BF.7 variant of coronavirus, belived to be linked to the surge in COVID-19 cases in China, was identified in India as far back as July. Four instances of the Omicron subvariant was genome-sequenced in Gujarat and Odisha in the subsequent months, but it was not linked to increased severity …