Insacog meet on Friday to take stock of rising Covid casesThe Insacog will assess the disease's severity. On Tuesday, India recorded 116 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths in Karnataka, elevating ...
27 Dec, 2023, 12.17 AM IST
Mask up, say doctors as Covid-19 cases show a riseWhile public health experts expect Covid-19 cases to increase in the winter, they stressed that there is no need to get another vaccine sho...
23 Dec, 2023, 03.36 PM IST
Covid deaths surge in Europe. Here is how JN.1 strain sweeps worldA massive rise in Covid-19 cases has been registered in the UK in the seven days up to December 6. A whopping 5,227 cases were recorded in ...
18 Dec, 2023, 10.35 PM IST
Covid tide ebbs in India, but Insacog stays alertOn Thursday India logged 24 new Covid-19 cases, according to the Union health ministry data. On October 19, the count was 48 cases, higher ...
26 Oct, 2023, 11.26 PM IST
'New Covid variant Pirola not yet detected in India'The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog) held a meeting on Friday to review the Covid situation and has not found anything "unus...
19 Sep, 2023, 12.21 AM IST
Covid unlikely to overwhelm hospitals: Experts"In fact, waste water surveillance in Bengaluru has shown that we went through a silent outbreak. Infections happened, but hospitals didn't...
04 May, 2023, 12.31 AM IST
H3N2 virus: Health experts call for masks, better hygiene and flu shotsA total of 3,038 lab-confirmed cases of various subtypes of influenza including H3N2 have been reported till March 9 by the states, as per ...
13 Mar, 2023, 07.13 PM IST
Five cases of XBB.1.5 coronavirus variant found in India, says INSACOGResponsible for a rise in cases in America, the variant was found in Gujarat and Karnataka and Rajasthan. The XBB.1.5 strain is a relative ...
04 Jan, 2023, 04.10 PM IST
What is Omicron's XBB.1.5 Sub-variant? Should India be worried?According to Dr Pragya Yadav, Sr Scientist, NIV-Pune, ICMR who tweeted about the global XBB.1.5 cases reported, "The USA has the highest co...
03 Jan, 2023, 10.35 PM IST
2022 saw the rise of multiple viral infections that are here to stayWith a looming threat of Covid-19 infection again to grab the country, the year 2022 has come to an end. After China and some other nations...
01 Jan, 2023, 10.07 PM IST
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...
19 Oct, 2022, 01.11 AM IST
Spurt in cases doesn't suggest new Covid wave in Delhi, but do not let guard down: ExpertsEminent epidemiologist Dr Chandrakant Lahariya said the test positivity rate is stagnant and it means the infection is spreading at the sam...
03 May, 2022, 05.31 PM IST
70% people who took booster dose didn't get Covid during 3rd wave in India: StudyThe study led by Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the Indian Medical Association's national task force on coronavirus, said that 45 per ...
26 Apr, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
COVID-19: Omicron driven wave will turn to villages after metros, says expert"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...
23 Jan, 2022, 09.32 PM IST
Zinc overuse driving mucormycosis epidemic within pandemic? Doctors want studyThe mucormycosis or black fungus crisis in India may not be driven only by the improper use of steroids among diabetic Covid patients, but ...
25 May, 2021, 02.29 PM IST
Experts call rise in Covid cases in few states 'Stochastic spread'While Kerala and Maharashtra continue to report a surge in cases, a trend of rise in infections is also being observed in Punjab, Chhattisg...
20 Feb, 2021, 10.46 PM IST
Elderly show fewer post-vaccine symptoms than young: StudyWith eight million healthcare and frontline workers vaccinated across the country by the end of Saturday, there are a range of observations...
14 Feb, 2021, 10.42 AM IST