COVID-19: Tamil Nadu reports first case of Omicron BA.4 variantTamil Nadu Minister for Health and Family Welfare MA Subramanian said the 19-year-old woman detected with the new variant was visited by to...
21 May, 2022, 08.52 PM IST
Uttarakhand government extends night curfew by one hourIt will now be applicable from 10 pm to 6 am, instead of 10 pm to 5 am as it was earlier. Moreover, hotels, dhabas, eateries will be allowe...
12 Jan, 2022, 12.41 AM IST
Scientists say Omicron sub-lineage BA.1 replacing Delta variantScientists who are sequencing the positive samples have seen that the both the original Omicron variant, B.1.1.529, and a sub-lineage of Om...
10 Jan, 2022, 01.50 PM IST
Woman found infected with Omicron after foreign travel; new COVID-19 variant cases in Madhya Pradesh rise to 10On Saturday, Madhya Pradesh reported 124 new cases of COVID-19, raising the infection count in the state to 7,94,089, while death the toll ...
02 Jan, 2022, 01.03 PM IST
Centre extends COVID-19 curbs till January 31 amid increasing Omicron threat"The country has witnessed an overall decline in active cases. However, the new variant, Omicron, is reported to be at least three times mo...
28 Dec, 2021, 07.00 AM IST
Goa detects its first Omicron caseMeanwhile, the tally of cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus in the country has risen to 578.
27 Dec, 2021, 09.44 PM IST
First Omicron case reported in ManipurThe patient tested positive for the Omicron variant of Covid-19 currently undergoing treatment in the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical...
27 Dec, 2021, 04.11 PM IST
Multi-vitamins, paracetamol - only treatment given to 40 Omicron patients at Delhi hospitalA senior doctor at the hospital said around 90 per cent of the patients are "asymptotic" and the rest showed mild symptoms like "sore throa...
24 Dec, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
Avoid all gatherings as Omicron is highly transmissible, don't lower your guard, say doctorsHealth experts and doctors treating Covid patients at leading government and private facilities in the city said a "sense of complacency" h...
17 Dec, 2021, 07.50 PM IST
West Bengal logs first Omicron case as 7-yr-old boy tests positiveThe seven-year-old child, who tested positive, has returned from Abu Dhabi and then took a flight to Hyderabad with his family. From Hydera...
15 Dec, 2021, 09.45 PM IST
Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh report their first Omicron variant case; tally goes up to 38A man who arrived from South Africa became the third person to test positive for the COVID-19 variant in Karnataka, while a 40-year-old man...
12 Dec, 2021, 08.43 PM IST
Gujarat: Omicron patient's wife, brother-in-law also detected with new variant; tally 3 nowGenome sequencing of swab samples at the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC) in Gandhinagar has established that both the COVID-19...
10 Dec, 2021, 02.14 PM IST
Rajasthan: All nine Omicron patients test negative for COVID, discharged from Jaipur hospitalAccording to the state health department, all nine patients are completely healthy and asymptomatic. Their blood, CT scan and other tests a...
10 Dec, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
50% Indians favour suspension of all international flights from countries with OmicronIndia had announced to resume international flights from Dec 15, 2021, but then decided to defer it due to rising Omicron cases across the ...
07 Dec, 2021, 10.07 AM IST
All 9 Omicron variant patients in Rajasthan's Jaipur are asymptotic: CMHOSpeaking to ANI, Sharma said, "All nine Omicron variant patients are asymptotic. We are taking the matter seriously and are doing contact t...
07 Dec, 2021, 06.19 AM IST
India's Omicron tally reaches 21 with 9 cases detected in Rajasthan, 7 more in MaharashtraA 33-year-old man from Maharashtra's Thane district had tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The man, a marine engineer,...
05 Dec, 2021, 11.39 PM IST
Two international air travellers including a child test positive for Covid; TN Govt says tests will only ascertain if Omicron variantMinister for Health and Family Welfare, Ma Subramanian, told reporters here a man who arrived from Singapore to Tiruchirappally in the wee ...
03 Dec, 2021, 11.15 AM IST