COVID-19

Geneva: The European head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries on Tuesday of a “significant surge” in COVID-19 cases as Omicron spreads, and suggested the widespread use of...

Washington: A 50-year-old unvaccinated man is believed to be the first American casualty of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. On Monday, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo confirmed that the 50-year-old...

Dibrugarh: In a timely breakthrough, the Indian Council of Medical Research – Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR-RMRC) centre in Assam’s Dibrugarh has developed a kit that can detect the Omicron...

Miami: Omicron seems to be on ‘cruise’ mode now. A total of 48 passengers who travelled on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas cruise tested COVID-positive after the ship docked...

New Delhi: The Omicron tally in India continued to rise steadily after Kerala and Delhi added COVID-positive cases with the new variant on Monday. Kerala reported 4 more cases, taking...

New Delhi: Following five more cases confirmed in Karnataka, India’s Omicron tally soared to 161 on Monday. According to Karnataka Health Minister Dr Sudhakar, the five patients are from Dharwad,...

London: Omicron is wreaking havoc in the UK ahead of Christmas and New Year eve. More than 10,000 cases of the new variant of coronavirus were detected in the country...

London: In what will be a relief and welcome news for those hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia, a drug has been identified that can be potentially used to treat such patients,...

Bhubaneswar: The swab samples of three persons who returned to Odisha recently from foreign countries, two of them from Nigeria, have been sent for genome-sequencing to check for the presence...

New Delhi: As many as 18 new Omicron-positive cases were detected in India on Saturday, of which one is a traveller from the UK. India's tally shot up to 129....