"If Omicron cases rise (further), its going to be challenging due to its faster spread. We will have to deal with the prevailing situation ...

Asking States and UTs not to let the guard down, he emphasised that there should be continued focus on the five-fold strategy -- Test-Track...

Similarly encouraging signs about hospitalisation rates emerged from South Africa on Wednesday, but the head of a leading African health ag...

India has so far recorded close to 250 cases of Omicron across 15 states and union territories even though at least 90 of the infected peop...

Although COVID-19 cases have fallen dramatically since a deadly wave in August, there is growing concern about the Omicron variant, which h...

Oil prices dipped on Friday, putting the market on track to end the week roughly unchanged, as surging cases of the Omicron coronavirus var...

With these two cases -- one from Latur and the other from Pune -- the tally of patients infected with the newly discovered variant of the c...

Though Health Secretary Sajid Javid said there had been no deaths yet confirmed in England, he said Omicron was probably behind around 40% ...

Oil prices extended gains on Thursday on confidence that the Omicron coronavirus variant would not dent global growth, even as some governm...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified Omicron, detected in South Africa and some other countries recently, as a 'Variant of Co...

The WHO has urged countries to boost healthcare capacity and vaccinate their people to fight a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicro...

Hong Kong expanded a ban on entry for non-residents from several countries as global health authorities raced to curb the spread of the Omi...

The G7 health ministers also said they recognised the strategic relevance of ensuring access to vaccines, and would take forward their dona...

In its commentary titled 'Much to Learn About OmicronFast’, Moody’s Analytics said although the variant appears to spread ”remarkably quick...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked countries not to put flight bans on southern African nations and instead use science and othe...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement that the ban, pending government approval, would last 14 days.

With so much uncertainty about the omicron variant and scientists unlikely to flesh out their findings for a few weeks, countries around th...