The Delta variant of the virus causing Covid-19 has caused infections to spike in the UK once more, preventing the planned relaxation of lockdown in England. But is it really faring worse than ...

The majority of new coronavirus cases in the UK are the so-called Indian variant - named the Delta variant by the World Health Organization. This version - or mutation - was first spotted in India ...

Scientists worldwide are closely tracking a descendant of the highly infectious Delta variant that's spreading in the UK. England's public-health authority said in a report on Friday that it was ...

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is suspected to be the most infectious yet by binding to human receptors better than the Delta variant and the team’s findings show it may have the potential to ...

Most young people who were confirmed to have long Covid three months after a positive test recover within two years, the ...

The Delta variant which was first detected in India ... It is 40 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant first detected in the UK. A study by The Lancet shows the variant results in ...

This variant was first detected in Maharashtra, India, in October and contributed to a devastating surge in infections in that country this spring. The delta variant has been reported in dozens of ...

A certain mutation in the COVID-19 Delta variant causes infected cells to form disruptive chunks in the lungs and leads to more serious symptoms of the disease, a research team said. If the cells ...

The data is in: People infected with the coronavirus variant first discovered in the UK have a higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than those who get other versions of the virus. New research ...