COVID-19

New Delhi: Amid a surge in Omicron cases, the Central government on Thursday wrote to eight states advising them to ramp up preparedness to face an impending third wave of...

New Delhi: Delhi has surpassed Maharashtra as India’s Omicron ‘hotspot’ with the number of cases doubling in a day to reach 263. There is cause for concern as Delhi Health...

London: As Omicron spreads far and wide, studies and analysis on the new variant of coronavirus continue across the world. Besides its exact nature and effect on vaccines, researchers have...

New Delhi: Omicron cases in India inched closer to the four-digit mark with 180 more people confirmed to have been infected by the new variant of coronavirus in the last...

Bhubaneswar: A day after reports emerged that the state government might reconsider its decision to reopen primary schools in Odisha from January 3, a senior official cleared the confusion and...

Mumbai: Section 144 has been imposed in Mumbai from December 30 to January 7 amid rising COVID and Omicron cases. Mumbai recorded 2,510 COVID cases over the last 24 hours....

Geneva: WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has urged people to get vaccinated if they haven’t already, saying that it appears that vaccines are still proving to be effective against...

New Delhi: Concerns over rising Omicron cases have resulted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE and Kuwait being postponed. Modi was scheduled to travel on January 6,...

Baripada: COVID-19 cases are surging on the back of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, but vaccine hesitancy refuses to go. A vaccination team was detained for several hours on Monday...

London: How quickly Omicron is spreading can be gauged from the fact that fresh COVID-19 cases crossed the 1-million mark for the second straight day. On Monday, a staggering 1.44...