The United States continues to have the highest number of new infections, although cases decreased by nearly one million over the last week...

While the Omicron variant is potentially less severe, health officials have warned that the sheer number of infections could strain hospita...

However, the study found that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca preventives may protect well against th...

Despite the sudden increase in Covid-19 cases, there have been a low number of fatalities at 22 in Maharashtra and one in Mumbai. Furthermo...

The news of the first death in the US due to Omicron came on a day when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that Omic...

India said it had supplied more than 25 million doses of domestically made shots to 41 African countries, mostly through the global vaccine...

The variant may be more transmissible and better able to evade the body’s immune responses, both to vaccination and to natural infection, t...

The world is in a very "dangerous period" of the Covid-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuin...

The UN health agency last month declared the entire strain a "variant of concern", or VOC, but on Tuesday, it said only one of the sub-line...

The B.1.617 variant of the virus, which has in part been blamed for India's explosive outbreak, has been dubbed a triple mutant variant sin...

How transmissible is the variant? We don't entirely know. But according to the minutes of an expert group advising the government last week...

Any changes in the viral genetic sequence during replication is known as a mutation and viruses with new mutations are sometimes known as v...

Bangladesh will be sending Remdesivir, an anti-viral medicine being used in COVID-19 treatment, along with other medical supplies to India ...

The threat of double and now a triple-mutant Indian strain, along with the deadly UK variant, are believed to be behind the latest surge ac...

Also, more than 11% of samples from across India show “variants of concern”, said experts at research institutes who have done genome seque...

International researchers believe this variant is typically of Indian origin. As a result, researchers and media houses from across the glo...

As many as two-thirds of the people want the government to suspend flights from the UK and South Africa amid a near sharp increase in the n...