India, which battled the deadly second wave blamed on the Delta variant in April-May last year, faced the Omicron challenge in December 202...

Their reasons include boosted immunity from the third wave that occurred between December 2021 and February and high vaccination coverage i...

Reddy said the world is moving towards a steady state where it will see a gradual decrease in the severity of cases, but there will still b...

"Each time, a wave first hit high mobility areas which include metro cities and then to smaller areas and villages. So, within the next few...

In the last few days there has been a steep increase in cases. In view of Omicron's explosive spread, experts say the threat level is curre...

On Monday, India reported over 1.79 lakh fresh Covid cases, its highest single-day rise since late May.

With 37,379 fresh cases, India's COVID-19 tally has climbed to 3,49,60,261, while the number of active cases of the infection has gone up t...

In the last one week, there has been an exponential increase in numbers and the data seems to indicate that a new phase of pandemic has beg...

Political parties see holding pre-election rallies as harmless. Some states are delaying action and others are still deploying ineffective ...

New studies in South Africa, Scotland and England show that Omicron is causing milder infections than previous variants and is less likely ...

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, posted on the preprint repository MedRxiv on December 21, used a statistical tool named the Gaussian Mix...

The Rt value of the virus has risen in a number of states (a value of 1 means every infected person can infect one other person). As per De...

Evidence has shown that the Omicron variant multiplies at a faster rate thereby causing infection at a faster rate and it has also been fou...

Daily COVID-19 caseload in India that is currently around 7,500 infections is expected to increase once the Omicron starts displacing Delta...

Vidyasagar, who is also the head of the National COVID-19 Supermodel Committee, said that India will have Omicron's third wave but it will ...

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) backed Sutra-model had earlier said the third wave of coronavirus could hit the country by O...

Given the widespread exposure of Indians to Covid-19 virus and a reasonably-high vaccination rate, India will likely be less affected by th...