Washington: While the world is on high alert due to the new Omicron Covid strain, Delta variant continues to be a major cause of the pandemic contributing to 99 per cent of cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Monday. Last week, the global health...
Johannesburg: South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics surveillance team had detected a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa...
Bhubaneswar: Amid detection of new Covid variant Omicron in some foreign countries, the Odisha government swung into action and asked all district collectors to remain prepared to tackle a possible third wave of Covid-19. Chief Secretary SC Mahapatra Sunday held a meeting with all collectors,...
New Delhi: Pakistan placed a complete ban on travel from seven countries in the wake of the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus, Omicron, first detected in South Africa, according to a notification issued by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), Dawn...
Johannesburg: South Africa's top health federation Sunday slammed the 18 nations which have imposed travel bans on the country on fears of the new potentially highly-transmissible variant of COVID-19, Omicron, saying the world must avoid such "knee-jerk reaction" if it wants "transparency" in the sharing...
New Delhi: The Centre Sunday wrote to the states and UTs over the possible threat of new Covid variant B.1.1.529 which has been designated as the 'Variant of Concern' (VOC) by the World Health Organisation. The Centre has urged states and UTs to do rigorous...
New Delhi: The newly detected Covid variant from South Africa this week -- omicron -- might affect those severely who have not yet taken their Covid-19 shot, health experts said Sunday. According to experts, getting vaccinated looks like the best available option at present and...
Ramallah: Palestine has expressed deep concerns over the spread of the new Covid-19 variant, known as B.1.1.529 or Omicron, after Israel announced it had detected its first such case. The Palestinian Health Ministry will recommend that the government authorities tighten procedures at crossing points and...
Sydney: Health authorities of Australia's state of New South Wales Sunday afternoon confirmed two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant after conducting urgent genomic sequencing from overseas travellers. The state, where the country's biggest international airport is located, said on Sunday morning that two...
Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 26.1 crore, while the deaths have surged to more than 51.9 lakh and vaccination to over 7.58 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering...
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