Since its emergence as a pneumonia-like outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late
2019, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 has spread widely to become a global …

Background: As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues, the
selection of genomic variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Introduction Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is crucial in the
surveillance of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several primer schemes have been developed to …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge that impacted 200+ countries. India ranks in
the second and third positions in terms of number of reported cases and deaths. Being a …

An escalating pandemic caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has severely impacted global health. There is a severe lack of …

Uttar Pradesh is the densely populated state of India and is the sixth highest COVID-19
affected state with 22,904 deaths recorded on November 12, 2021. Whole-genome …

Globally, SARS-CoV-2 has moved from one tide to another with ebbs in between. Genomic
surveillance has greatly aided the detection and tracking of the virus and the identification of …

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is the gold standard for the detection of new variants of
SARS-CoV-2 including those which have immune escape properties, high infectivity, and …

Since the first reported case of COVID-19 in December 2019, several SARS-CoV-2 variants
have evolved, and some of them have shown higher transmissibility, becoming the prevalent …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged from a city in China and has now spread as
a global pandemic affecting millions of individuals. The causative agent, severe acute …