Health workers at the Gaya airport say that hordes of people are landing to attend the Buddhist event but only a handful are agreeing to get tested.

With Diwali around the corner and the COVID menace apparently rearing its head again with Omicron’s BQ.1 variant, the Union minister of health and family welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, chaired a meeting on the pandemic situation in the country.

In a major health scare, the first case of Omicron’s BQ.1 subvariant was detected in Pune on Monday.

HYDERABAD: In what comes as a big relief to all awaiting the results of COVAXIN booster dose study play outs, the vaccine has shown equal efficacy against the latest strains, namely Delta and Omicron. Earlier studies demonstrated the neutralising potential of COVAXIN against SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Alpha, Beta, Delta, Zeta, and Kappa. Dr. Krishna […]

NEW DELHI/HIMACHAL PRADESH: India’s Omicron tally went past the 2000-mark on Tuesday with 153 more cases taking the total number of patients to 2,043. The variant is now spread across 24 states and UTs in the country with fresh cases being recorded in Meghalaya, taking the final tally of fresh Covid cases to 58,097. This […]

NEW DELHI:  The first case of Omicron variant of COVID19 in Delhi and seven infections in Maharashtra on Sunday triggered a warning bell across India, taking the latest tally of the new strain to be at least 21 in the country. Seven cases of Omicron variant in Maharashtra include six in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal area and […]

NEW DELHI: India has confirmed two cases of Omicron variant of Coronavirus, the health ministry said on Thursday. The two cases have been found in Karnataka. Amid rising cases of Covid-19 cases due to Omicron, India Gandhi Airport on Thursday said four passengers coming from ‘at-risk’ nations including three from Paris and one from London […]

CHANDIGARH: A 39-year-old man, who had recently returned from South Africa on November 21, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, and to ascertain if the man is positive for the new Omicron variant, his samples were sent for genome sequencing, shared the UT health officials. Meanwhile, amid concerns over the new variant, the UT administration […]

GENEVA: The World Trade Organization postponed the 12TH Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday following the discovery of ‘Omicron’, a new strain of the coronavirus. The conference was scheduled to take place from 30 November 2021 to 3 December 2021. *ANNOUNCEMENT* The imminent Ministerial Conference is postponed after an outbreak of a new strain […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a key meeting on Saturday morning on the evolving situation of COVID 19 in the world and its effect in India amid an alert on new dangerous strain and need for a further intensified vaccination drive that saw India last month crossing the 100-crore mark. The meeting has […]