Coronavirus

Wellington: New Zealand had detected nine fresh Omicron cases in international arrivals, taking the country's overall tally of people infected with the new variant to 22, the Ministry of Health said Monday. Of the total Omicron cases to date, all remain in managed isolation with...

Jerusalem: Israel's Ministry of Health Sunday said it decided to ban travel to ten more countries to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The ban will take effect Wednesday and will include the United States, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Canada,...

New Delhi: As many as 107 fresh cases of coronavirus, highest in the past six months, and one death, after 10 days, were reported in Delhi, according to the Health Department bulletin Sunday. With the new cases, the national capital's infection tally has now climbed...

New Delhi/Mumbai: India's Omicron Covid count rose to 145 Sunday after a 45-year-old NRI and a teenage boy, who recently arrived in Gujarat from the United Kingdom, tested positive for the variant. According to central and state officials, omicron cases have been detected in 11 states...

London: A team of UK researchers has analysed the likely impact that a Covid booster shot will have on Omicron and says it could provide around 85 per cent protection against severe illness. According to the BBC, the protection is a bit less than vaccines...

New Delhi: Industry body PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) Saturday emphasised on the need for the Centre's continuous handholding of the economy to mitigate the uncertainty caused by the looming impact of new Covid variant Omicron. "Although the resilience of Indian economy is...

New Delhi/Mumbai: India's Omicron COVID count rose to 145 Sunday after a 45-year-old NRI and a teenage boy, who recently arrived in Gujarat from the United Kingdom, tested positive for the variant. According to central and state officials, omicron cases have been detected in 11...

Detroit: Hospitals across US are struggling to cope with burnout among doctors, nurses and other workers, already buffeted by a crush of patients from the ongoing surge of the COVID-19 delta variant and now bracing for the fallout of another highly transmissible mutation. Ohio became...

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 27.4 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 53.4 lakh and vaccinations to over 8.65 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...

New Delhi: With 7,081 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's total tally of cases rose to 3,47,40,275, while the active cases declined to 83,913, the lowest in 570 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll...