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India records 6,050 new cases in 24 hours; Active case tally stands at 28,303India records 6,050 new cases in the last 24 hours while the active case tally stands at 28,303, according to Union health ministry data up...
WHO backs mask wearing on long flights as new Omicron variant spreadsPassengers should be advised to wear masks in high-risk settings such as long-haul flights, said the WHO's senior emergency officer for Eur...
Omicron subvariants BA.5.2, BF.7 responsible for latest COVID outbreak in China: WHOIn a statement, WHO said that the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) held a meeting with the Chinese Center for Disease C...
Omicron BA.2 less severe than its original and Delta variants : StudyOf 1,02,315 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US from March 3, 2020 to June 20 this year, there were 20,770 labelled as Delta variants, 52,60...
Experts urge caution after detection of BQ.1 strainThey said Covid-19 cases could rise in the coming days due to festivals including Diwali next week. BQ.1 is an offshoot of the Omicron vari...
Covid-19: India detects first Omicron subvariant BQ.1 in PuneMeanwhile, the Maharashtra government warned of a COVID-19 spike citing evasive XBB, winter, and festive season. The state reported 17.7 pe...
Covid-19: Positivity rate uptick in Bengaluru; XBB variant not yet detected in new casesThe weekly test positivity rate was 4.8% in BBMP limits for Bengaluru on October 15, up from 4.2% the previous day, according to the health...
Omicron's new 'BA.2.75.2' variant growing quickly in India, becoming more transmissible, immune evasive: ScientistsAccording to a ToI report, Maharashtra's coordinator for genome sequencing, Dr Rajesh Karyakarte, has confirmed that BA.2.75 Covid variant ...
New Covid variant found in India may fuel fresh infections: ExpertsWhile the government is yet to confirm the presence of the new sublineage, Shay Fleishon, from the Central Virology Laboratory at Sheba Med...
No new variant but severity, hospitalisation being monitored: NCDC on surge in COVID cases"We are looking into the type of variant that whether we are getting particular cases of some variant like US, UK and other countries are r...
Covid-19: INSACOG confirms presence of BA.4, BA.5 subvariants of Omicron in IndiaIndia had reported the first case of Omicron BA.4 sub-variant in Hyderabad. First detected in South Africa, it is highly transmissible.
COVID's new Omicron sub-lineages can dodge immunity from past infection: StudyThe scientists from multiple institutions were examining Omicron's BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages - which the World Health Organization last mon...
Omicron sublineages likely evade vaccines, natural immunitySouth Africa is seen as a key harbinger of how the omicron variant and its sublineages are likely to play out in the rest of the world. Sou...
Omicron sublineages likely evade vaccines, natural immunitySouth Africa is seen as a key harbinger of how the omicron variant and its sublineages are likely to play out in the rest of the world. Sou...
Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12 found in most of Delhi samples, could be behind surge: SourcesDelhi logged 1,009 fresh Covid cases on Wednesday, a 60 per cent jump from a day ago.
Continuing to monitor 'several descendent lineages' of Omicron variant: WHOThe World Health Organisation has said that it is continuing to monitor "several descendent lineages" of the Omicron variant of the coronav...
Two new Omicron subvariants detected by South African scientists"New Omicron BA.4 & BA.5 detected in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and U.K. Early indications that these new sublineag...
Voluntary use of masks must be promoted in view of new XE variant: ExpertsThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against XE, a new variant of Omicron first detected in the UK, and suggested that ...
Omicron dominates Covid third wave in Karnataka, minister clarifies deleting previous tweetAccording to the data gathered using genome sequencing activity for a sample of 5,659, up to December 2021, there were cases of 4,027 Delta...
No clear evidence yet on Omicron's transmissibility, immune evasion, severity in India: INSACOGThe consortium said that while there are some indicators that the disease may be milder with Omicron, there is insufficient data to determi...