Omicron variant BA.5 sub-lineage BF.7 has the capacity to re-infect individuals and can even infect those who have had vaccines.

These cases have been reported from Gujarat and Odisha, he added. BF.7 has been seen replacing the variants dominant in the United States a...

It will include a mix of newly-approved jabs adapted for the now dominant Omicron strain, and the original vaccines developed to fight the ...

Top officials, including leader Kim Jong Un, held a crisis politburo meeting on Thursday to discuss the outbreak and announced they would i...

The country has recorded a mere two deaths from more than 443,000 cases since March 1, both of which occurred in Jilin - a province borderi...

China is grappling with its largest surge of COVID-19 infections since the coronavirus first emerged more than two years ago in central Chi...

Chinese medical experts believed last year that higher vaccination rates would eventually allow China to relax tough rules on movement and ...

The World Bank has already lowered its growth outlook and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Friday pred...

The city went into strict lockdown on December 22, following a coronavirus outbreak that officials attributed to the delta variant. Xi'an, ...

Sporadic outbreaks scattered across the country of both the delta and omicron variants have already triggered shutdowns to clothing factori...

China reported more cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant on Monday, with authorities on high alert over flare-ups ...

The new year got off to a mixed start on Monday in holiday-thinned Asian trade, following a healthy run-up at the end of last week, with so...

Much of Asia has largely managed to keep omicron at bay even as the variant rages in other parts of the world, but the region that is home ...

The US is the nation hit hardest by the pandemic, and is closing in on its daily high of 250,000 cases recorded last January.

The problems in the province come as Chinese media reported on Monday that the country's first case of the fast-spreading Omicron variant h...

Though Health Secretary Sajid Javid said there had been no deaths yet confirmed in England, he said Omicron was probably behind around 40% ...

Analysts said improving macros - GDP growth, GST collections, PMI - augur well for markets while rising inflation and its impact on monetar...