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

The EU regulator said Monday that laboratory studies suggest the combination vaccine - which targets both the original COVID-19 virus as we...

SII Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla told NDTV that the vaccine is being developed in collaboration with Novavax. Poonawalla further...

The UK medicines regulator (MHRA) approved the so-called bivalent vaccine made by U.S. drug company Moderna as a booster for adults. The ag...

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...

The research, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, is the first large-scale study to compare the health outcomes of coronavirus infect...

Farah Ingale, director, internal medicine at Fortis Hiranandani Hospital Vashi, said the hospital is seeing new cases of reinfection, espec...

Compared with earlier variants, Omicron resulted in notably lower hospitalisation and death rates, leading some to conclude that the varian...

The researchers conclude, as many others have, that antibodies (the proteins that neutralise the virus) against previous variants or induce...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) also expressed doubts about giving a fourth vaccine shot to the general population, saying repeated boo...

Symptoms of Omicron may be increasingly labelled as mild but many recovering from it say they are grappling with excruciating body pain and...

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority and the Drug Controller General of India held a meeting with AIOCD on Monday regarding the av...

A senior doctor at the hospital said around 90 per cent of the patients are "asymptotic" and the rest showed mild symptoms like "sore throa...

In view of the rising Covid cases and Omicron threat, the Delhi government will increase daily test capacity to three lakh and strengthen h...

India cannot afford the luxury of knee-jerk lockdowns and other restrictions that turn out to be overkill in the face of Omicron.

Delhi has so far reported two Omicron cases. It reported the first such case on December 5 when a 37-year-old fully-vaccinated man, who arr...

The U.N. health agency, after a meeting of its expert panel on vaccination, reiterated its advice to governments against the widespread use...