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  Omicron variant Updates: Maharashtra permits restaurants, theatres to operate at 50% capacity

  India | February 01, 2022 23:07 IST

  COVID appropiate behaviour like social distancing, mask-wearing, hand hygiene and sanitisation will have to be followed in the institution and the head of the institution should ensure adherence to it, says the order.

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  What we know now about COVID immunity after infection – including Omicron and Delta variants

  Health | January 31, 2022 12:28 IST

  Unfortunately, immunity wanes over time – people lose half their immunity every 3 months. Further, new variants continue to emerge that are partially resistant to key immune responses – antibodies that neutralise earlier strains – this is especially true of Omicron.

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  Omicron variant Live Updates: Arunachal Pradesh extends COVID-19 restrictions till Feb 14

  India | January 31, 2022 22:56 IST

  Beneficiaries in the age group of 15 to 18 years will start receiving their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Monday. The drive to inoculate the adolescents in this age group had begun on January 3. Delhi has around 10.14 lakh beneficiaries in the age group.

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  COVID pandemic: India logs over 2.34 lakh new cases with positivity rate at 14.50%; 893 deaths

  India | January 30, 2022 9:19 IST

  The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 18,84,937 the health ministry data showed today.

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  Omicron variant Updates: Scientists debate over need for COVID-specific vaccine

  India | January 30, 2022 23:31 IST

  This week, pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and biotechnology company Moderna announced that they have initiated clinical trials in which they are dosing people with Omicron-based vaccines.

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  How did Omicron evolve? Scientists explore theories relating to origins of COVID variant

  Health | January 30, 2022 6:10 IST

  While on one hand, there's no transparent path of transmission linking Omicron to its predecessors, on the other, the variant has an unusual array of mutations, which evolved entirely outside the view of researchers, Nature reported.  

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  BA.2 is 1.5 times more transmissible than original Omicron strain: Study

  World | January 29, 2022 13:16 IST

  Omicron, which is also referred to as B.1.1.529, has three main substrains, BA.1, BA.2, and BA.3, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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  COVID pandemic: India logs over 2.35 lakh new cases with positivity rate at 13.39%; 871 deaths

  India | January 29, 2022 9:29 IST

  The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 20,04,333 the health ministry data showed on Jan 29.

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  COVID: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to hold review meeting with 5 states today

  India | January 29, 2022 7:40 IST

  Earlier on Jan 28, Mandaviya conducted a high-level meeting with Southern states and UT's Health Minister's and stressed upon e-Sanjeevani, teleconsultation etc.

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  Omicron variant: COVID-19 `third wave' seems to be waning, says Maharashtra health minister

  India | January 29, 2022 22:42 IST

  Sharing the genome sequencing data till Thursday in the state, the Minister said that Omicron variant is more dominant in the ongoing 3rd wave of COVID with 67.5 pc of the samples testing positive for the variant.

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  Experiencing long lasting COVID-19 symptoms? THIS maybe the reason

  Health | February 01, 2022 18:13 IST

  Some estimate that up to 30 per cent of the COVID-19 infected people, including many who were never hospitalised, have persistent symptoms. US researchers have identified four factors that are linked to a person's risk of developing long lasting symptoms post a COVID infection.

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  COVID hits one of the last uninfected places on planet

  World | January 28, 2022 12:54 IST

  Officials tested each returning passenger three times in nearby Fiji, required that they be vaccinated, and put them in quarantine with additional testing when they arrived home.

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  COVID pandemic: India logs over 2.51 lakh new cases with positivity rate at 15.88%; 627 fatalities

  India | January 28, 2022 9:27 IST

  The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 21,05,611 the health ministry data showed today.

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  Mansukh Mandaviya to hold review meeting with southern states, UTs over COVID situation today

  India | January 28, 2022 7:49 IST

  As per the sources, health ministers of AP, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands will attend the meeting.

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  Haryana govt allows opening of cinema halls, theatres, multiplexes with 50 pc seating capacity

  India | January 28, 2022 23:20 IST

  Delta variant, which drove the ferocious 2nd wave of COVID infections in April and May last year, was found in 13.70 pc of the 2,503 samples sequenced during the period.

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  Delhi logs 4,291 fresh Covid-19 cases today, 42% lower than yesterday

  India | January 27, 2022 20:31 IST

  The Test Positivity Rate (TPR) in the national capital dropped to 9.56 per cent.

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  Coronavirus pandemic: 2.86 lakh new cases reported in last 24 hrs; positivity rate at 19.59%

  India | January 27, 2022 9:23 IST

  The total active cases of COVID in India have rose to 22,02,472 the health ministry data showed today.

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  COVID: Denmark ends most virus restrictions, as Sweden extends them

  World | January 27, 2022 7:32 IST

  Danish PM Mette Frederiksen said that as of Feb 1 Danes will enjoy free access to restaurants, cafes, museums and nightclubs, while mask use will cease to be mandatory.

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  Omicron variant: TN lifts curbs, allows schools, colleges to reopen on Feb 1

  India | January 27, 2022 23:42 IST

  "The COVID situation is in control in Delhi. Today, the national capital will report less than 5,000 cases and the positivity rate will also come down from the existing 10%," says Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain.

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  No guarantee that future Covid variants will be less severe: WHO

  Health | January 27, 2022 9:52 IST

  The next variant of Covid may also evade vaccine protections even more, making the existing vaccines even less effective. According to Dr Mike Ryan, WHO's director of emergency programmes, the virus will continue to evolve before it settles into a pattern.