Coronavirus

Thiruvananthapuram: A man, who flew in to Kochi from the UK, has tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Kerala Health Minister, Veena George announced Sunday. She said that the passenger is stable and is under observation, while stressing that there was no need...

Nagpur: A 40-year-old man from Maharashtra's Nagpur, who recently travelled to west Africa, has tested positive for the Covid-19 variant Omicron, taking the state's tally to 18, officials said here Sunday. Nagpur Municipal Corporation Commissioner B. Radhkrishnan said that the condition of the patient -...

New Delhi: Public health groups, along with economists and doctors, have urged the government to increase excise duty on all tobacco products in the Union Budget of 2022-23. This plea has come with two ideas in mind. First is to prevent the use of tobacco...

Visakhapatnam: The number of Omicron patients in India ticked up to 36 as three more cases were detected -- one each in Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. For Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh, these were the first cases. In Karnataka, it was the third. Andhra Pradesh...

Dhaka: Bangladesh has confirmed the presence of Omicron variant of the coronavirus in two players of the women's national cricket team, which recently returned from Zimbabwe. "Both the cricketers are in quarantine at a hotel. They are in good health," Health Minister Zahid Maleque told...

Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 26.96 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 53 lakh and vaccinations to over 8.41 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 7,774 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 3,46,90,510, while the number of active cases declined to 92,281, the lowest in 560 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll...

New Delhi: A 35-year-old man with travel history to Zimbabwe and South Africa has tested positive for Omicron, becoming the second patient of the new COVID-19 variant in Delhi, sources said Saturday. He is admitted at the LNJP Hospital and only has weakness, they added....

London: The UK could face a "large wave" of Omicron infections from January next year if restrictions on social gatherings are not imposed, a new scientific analysis warned Saturday. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) model lays out all the possible scenarios...

Dhaka: Two members of the Bangladesh women's cricket team tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 after returning home from Zimbabwe, the country's health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque said Saturday. "It will take time to recover and according to protocol we will...