COVID-19

New Delhi: The Omicron variant of coronavirus is possibly five times more infectious and has higher transmissibility, the Union Health ministry said on Thursday. The first two cases of Omicron...

Bengaluru: The first two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were on Thursday confirmed to have been detected in Karnataka. One of these persons, with a South Africa travel...

New Delhi: India is yet to report a COVID-positive case infected by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. But the country is living in trepidation, fearing the worst. In the latest...

Mumbai: The Union Health ministry has written to the Maharashtra government asking it to align with Central guidelines vis-à-vis international and domestic travellers. The directive urges Maharashtra to scrap additional...

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya told the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour on Tuesday that no cases of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, had been reported in...

New Delhi: A comprehensive policy will be chalked out next week on additional COVID vaccine doses for immunocompromised people, India’s COVID Task Force chairman, NK Arora was quoted as saying...

New Delhi: India offered to send COVID-19 vaccines, life-saving drugs, test kits and medical equipment to African countries on Monday to fight the COVID-19’s new Omicron variant. The World Health...

Bengaluru: There have been endless COVID-19 horror stories in our country during the deadly second wave of the pandemic earlier this year. But here’s a heart-wrenching tale of utter apathy...

Bengaluru: At least one of the two foreign nationals who travelled from South Africa to Bengaluru recently has been found to be infected by a variant “different from the Delta...

New York: Omicron, classified as a ‘variant of concern’, seems to be spreading fast and wide. No wonder World Health Organization (WHO) is extremely worried. The UN health agency said...