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India Coronavirus Dispatch: New computational tool to track Covid mutations

Parents more ready to send kids to school, trial candidates wonder if they got vaccine or placebo, Antibodies appear faster if exposed to virus earlier-news relevant to India's fight against Covid-19

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Researchers at Mumbai's Homi Bhabha National Institute have built a new computational tool that can discover the origins of new variants of coronavirus, a report in ThePrint said. | Photo: Shutterstock

Bharath Manjesh New Delhi
IN NUMBERS: Over 16,000 fresh cases reported

India reported 16,838 fresh coronavirus infections on Friday, taking the cumulative caseload to 11,173,761, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 113 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 157,548, according to central health ministry data. The active caseload is at 176,319, while the total recoveries have surged to 10,839,894. As many as 18,005,503 people have been inoculated since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, 1,388,170 received their shots on Thursday. Read more here

New computational tool to track Covid mutations

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