These cases have been reported from Gujarat and Odisha, he added. BF.7 has been seen replacing the variants dominant in the United States a...

BF.7 is a sub-lineage of the Omicron variant BA.5 and has the strongest infection ability since it is highly transmissible, has a shorter i...

As many as 9,672 Omicron samples were found in January in genome sequencing constituting 75 per cent of the total sequenced samples of COVI...

Official sources said the state has received 30,000 'OmiSure' kits in the first phase out of its order of 5 lakh such kits. He said the kit...

At least 991 children were among the new patients and the positivity ratio stood at 16.7 per cent as the fresh infections were detected fro...

Odisha director of public health, Niranjan Mishra said of the 28 new cases, 18 have history of international travel, two are from outside t...

Odisha had first reported Omicron cases on December 21 last year. Director of Health Service Bijay Mohapatra said that the Omicron variant ...

Till a few days ago it was only in the western region of the country that the surge in Covid cases was due to Omicron, while in the northea...

The toll rose to 8,463 as a 75-year-old woman from Bhubaneswar succumbed to the virus in Khurda district. Fifty-three other COVID-19 patien...

The 45-year-old woman, a resident of Agalpur in Bolangir district who had tested positive for coronavirus, had died on December 27 last yea...

It has been observed that there has been a considerable decline in COVID-19 testing in these states and union territories amid rising cases...

On Thursday, the coastal state had logged five omicron infections, and the first such case on December 21. Odisha's coronavirus tally on Su...

India has reported a total of 578 cases of the Omicron variant to date, as per the union health ministry. Of the 578 cases, 151 patients ha...

"During analysis of 183 Omicron positive cases 121 had a foreign history, 44 cases have no travel history but most of them are those who ca...

Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana announced night curfews and other restrictions on Friday. Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat...

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...

Jammu and Kashmir and Odisha are the latest states to report Omicron cases. Besides Maharashtra,Telangana, Odisha and J&K, the breakup in o...