Virus Scare

Lucknow: Among the 300 travellers who landed in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, 13 have furnished wrong addresses and phone numbers, said the district’s chief medical officer. Efforts are on to locate...

Bhubaneswar: After a gap of four days, the daily COVID caseload in Odisha dropped below 200 on Saturday as 193 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours. The...

Johannesburg: Concerns have been expressed by South African experts about soaring COVID-19 infections among children, as the country registered 16,055 infections and 25 fatalities on Friday. “We have always seen...

Geneva: The chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan urged people on Friday to not panic over the emergence of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 and...

New Delhi: An Indian consortium has recommended considering the administration of a booster dose of coronavirus vaccines to people above 40 years of age. The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, responsible...

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Asia-Pacific countries on Friday to boost healthcare capacity and fully vaccinate their people to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 cases as...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll in Odisha touched 8,508 on Friday with three more deaths being confirmed in the last 24 hours. According to the Health Department, the deaths were reported...

Bhubaneswar: The daily COVID caseload in Odisha remained above 200 for the fourth consecutive day on Friday as 270 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours. The state...

New Delhi: An Indian badminton player and two others are stranded in Botswana amid the Omicron scare. Commercial flights out of the country have been banned at two transit points,...

New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) designated the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 as a ‘variant of concern’ in November. The variant, which was discovered by the South African...