Coronavirus

New Delhi: The super-mutant Omicron variant that has rapidly spread to 106 countries in less than a month from its discovery, may have peaked, suggests data from South Africa and the UK. South Africa's Gauteng Province - the epicentre of Omicron infection - has shown...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Wednesday set the target to achieve 100 per cent inoculation by January 15, 2022 by holding COVID-19 vaccination camps in villages. The direction was issued by state chief secretary S C Mohapatra, who reviewed the prevailing coronavirus situation in the state with...

Moscow: Russia's Sputnik-V vaccine and its one-shot version Sputnik Light booster demonstrates high virus-neutralising activity (VNA) against the highly-contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, providing a strong defence against severe disease and hospitalisation, according to a study. The Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology...

New Delhi: Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that humanity "could be entering the worst part of the pandemic" as the Omicron variant spreads fast across the globe, stressing that Omicron will "hit home for all of us". In a series of tweets,...

Jerusalem: Israel Wednesday announced plans to roll out a fourth shot of Covid vaccine to fight the new vaccine evading Omicron variant. According to the country's Health Ministry, the Pandemic Response team on Tuesday night recommended that anyone over the age of 60 and medical...

Brussels: Omicron will dominate European countries within weeks, pushing an already stretched health system further to the brink, said head of the European office of the World Health Organization (WHO) while urging people to get a booster jab. Detected barely a month ago, the fast...

Sydney: Australian researchers have developed a test which can provide highly accurate readings for Covid-19 from a finger prick of blood within 20 minutes. The point-of-care (POC) test, created by scientists from the Burnet Institute and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, is...

New Delhi: At least 30 suspected cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 were reported in Balochistan's Kalat district during a diagnostic process, Geo News reported. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), however, has not yet confirmed any cases of the strain in the...

London: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has added a fifth vaccine to its anti-Covid arsenal as the Omicron variant continued to spread across Europe. "EMA has recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid to prevent Covid in people from 18 years of age," the...

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that he will not introduce any further Covid restrictions in the UK before Christmas, but has warned that the situation remains "finely balanced" ahead of the new year. In a video posted on social media by Downing...