The World Health Organization (WHO) classified EG.5, which has been nicknamed by some as "Eris", as a "variant of interest," indicating tha...

India has detected the Eris sub-variant of COVID-19, which caused concern in the UK, but has not reported any clustering or increase in cas...

Public health experts suggest that a fourth dose of the Covid vaccine is unnecessary for now. With only 220 million people taking the third...

"We are doing well with the present strategy and hence there is no need to make changes in the vaccination programme, which is already work...

Experts stated that the severity of Omicron BF.7 in India may be less severe than in China because Indians have already developed 'herd imm...

Drawing a comparison between India and China, Dr Mishra said that India has strong protection of hybrid immunity due to exposure either sym...

Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid vaccine has been approved by the Union Health Ministry for inclusion in the vaccination programme as a bo...

The decision comes after India detected cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, the strain behind fresh spurt in Covid cases in China. Earlier in...

"The Delhi government is keeping a watch on the Covid situation. CM Arvind Kejriwal himself is monitoring the preparedness," a senior Delhi...

"In view of reporting newer sub-variants of Omicron BQ.1 (US variant) BA.2.3.20 apart from XBB, which is a recombinant of BA.2.75 and BJ.1 ...

According to a ToI report, Maharashtra's coordinator for genome sequencing, Dr Rajesh Karyakarte, has confirmed that BA.2.75 Covid variant ...

Experts have reduced the protective window of prior infection from 12 weeks to 28 days.

Since the initial highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant known as BA.1 of COVID-19 emerged last year, its new subvariants continue to...

Thirty-two districts in India including 11 from Kerala and five from Maharashtra are reporting a weekly Covid positivity rate of more than ...

For now, you should treat any new symptoms, including a fever, sore throat, runny nose or change in taste or smell, as a potential case of ...

"Big cities remain outbreak prone due to high density and movement," said Anurag Agrawal, former head of laboratory consortium Insacog and ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against XE, a new variant of Omicron first detected in the UK, and suggested that ...