Coronavirus

London: The hypermutated Omicron Covid variant, known to evade vaccine efficacy, cannot be deterred with two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 shots, scientists at Oxford University have found. The yet to be peer-reviewed study, published on the preprint server MedRxiv, used blood samples from...

Nairobi: The African continent might not reach the target of vaccinating 70% of its 1.3 billion population against COVID-19 until the second half of 2024, a target many of the world's richer countries have already met, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. The warning comes...

Mumbai: The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sealed four apartment buildings in Bandra-Khar. The decision to seal the four buildings were taken after Bollywood actresses Kareena Kapoor and Amrita Arora tested Covid-19 positive. The buildings have been sealed and testing camps are being conducted there,...

Mumbai: Complacency towards following social distancing as a ‘social vaccine’ continues to high in India. This is happening even though India has recorded over 50 cases of the Omicron variant within the last 10 days. This finding has been done by ‘LocalCircles’ in a new...

Washington: Pfizer said Tuesday that its experimental pill to treat Covid-19 appears effective against the omicron variant. The company also said full results of its 2,250-person study confirmed the pill’s promising early results against the virus. Pfizer said the drug reduced combined hospitalisations and deaths...

Abu Dhabi: US Open champion Emma Raducanu has tested positive for Covid-19 and withdrawn from the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi. "I was very much looking forward to playing in front of the fans here in Abu Dhabi, but unfortunately after...

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) plans to launch a Covid-19 vaccine for children in the next six months. This information was given Tuesday by the company’s CEO Adar Poonawalla. He was participating in an industry conference. Adar Poonawalla said the vaccine ‘Covovax’ is...

New Delhi: India’s tally of the COVID-19 Omicron variant-induced infections has reached 49 with new cases being reported in Delhi and Rajasthan. Earlier, a 42-year-old man from Gujarat who recently returned from South Africa tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The man had first...

London: The hypermutated Omicron Covid variant, known to evade vaccine efficacy, cannot be deterred with two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 shots, scientists at Oxford University have found. The yet to be peer-reviewed study, published on the preprint server MedRxiv, used blood samples from...

Beijing: Mainland China has reported its first case of the new Omicron Covid variant in the port city of Tianjin, media reports said Tuesday. The case is "imported from Europe", Gu Qing, director of Tianjin Health Commission, was quoted saying in an interview with Chinese...