Coronavirus

New Delhi: The durability of immunity post the Covid infection persists for about 9 months, Indian Council of Medical Research Director General, Balram Bhargava, said Thursday. The whole SARS CoV2 virus infects an individual in natural settings, and elicits three kinds of responses - antibody...

New Delhi: There have been extensive deliberations on whether the precautionary (third) dose of Covid vaccine for healthcare and frontline workers and citizens above 60 years with comorbidities should be the same as the first two doses and a decision is expected soon, the government...

New Delhi: The Centre Thursday wrote letters to eight states and union territories (UTs) over the rise in number of new Covid cases. The letter has been addressed to those states reporting increased numbers of Covid and Omicron variant cases. The letter has been written...

New Delhi: Omicron is gradually spreading in the community and the new, fast-spreading variant of concern has been found in 46 per cent of the latest samples analysed in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Thursday. He said stringent curbs have been...

Mumbai: Actress-dancer Nora Fatehi has tested positive for Covid and is currently in quarantine under the doctor's observation. Nora's spokesperson said: "On behalf of Nora Fatehi, as her spokesperson, would want to inform that Nora Fatehi has been tested positive for Covid on 28th of...

Chicago: More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the US have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. The previous...

New Delhi: A Covid-19 tracker, developed by UK's University of Cambridge, has predicted that India may soon see an intense but short-lived virus wave "within days", even as the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid is spreading like wildfire in the country with over 780...

Geneva: The overall risk associated with the Omicron variant remains 'very high' which could cause widespread disruption to health systems and other critical services, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. In its weekly epidemiological update, the WHO said on Tuesday that "The overall risk...

New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, India registered 9,195 fresh Covid-19 cases, a significant spike from the previous day's figure of 6,358, and 302 deaths, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said Wednesday. With the fresh fatalities, the death toll climbed to...

Bhubaneswar: More than two crore adults in Odisha are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed Tuesday. Odisha has achieved yet another significant milestone in the fight against Covid-19 as more than 2 crore people have received the second dose of vaccine,...