Chief Secretary Dharmendra in a notification has directed all districts to prioritize the detection and containment of outbreaks of new SARs-CoV-2 variants and micro-containment measures as and where needed.
Thirty-two districts in India including 11 from Kerala and five from Maharashtra are reporting a weekly Covid-19 positivity rate of over 10%.
Their samples were taken between May 4 and 18. Two of them had travelled to South Africa and Belgium, while three had travelled to Kerala and Karnataka. The other two patients had no recent travel history, he said.
Everyone kept their fingers crossed after rarest but huge public outcry against continuous Covid-19 restrictions in China. However, Chinese President Xi Jinping has chosen soft policy to deal with the country’s internal...
The civic body said 279 COVID-19 samples were examined in the 12th series batch at the Genome Sequencing Lab in BMC-run Kasturba Hospital. Out of the total, 202 samples were collected from Mumbai, while the remaining were...
The B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variant has previously been reported as more transmissible, but less severe than other SARS-CoV-2 variants.
According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, BA.4.6 now accounts for more than 9 per cent of recent cases across the US. The variant has also been identified in several other countries around the world.
China’s health minister Ma Xiaowei has pledged to take toughest measures to prevent a major outbreak of Covid-19, ruling out any relaxations ahead of this year’s 20th Communist Party Congress.
According to BMC's recent statement, the XE variant of Covid was detected in a 50-year-old woman in Mumbai. However, the Centre has refuted such claims.
The condition of the patients infected with the new strains of the virus in Mumbai was not serious, the official said.
According to the World Health Organisation, BA.2 now represents 86 per cent of all sequenced variants, making it more transmissible than the BA.1 and BA.1.1...
China reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021. China is currently witnessing a two-year high surge in COVID cases.
Delivering the keynote address at a webinar, he said India's strategies of public health response have resulted in better management of Omicron surge compared...
The 429 deaths reported in the latest 24 hours were nearly 140 more than the previous one-day record set on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting in the wake of a humongous rise in the Covid-19 cases in China and South East...
The illness is marked by a distinctive barking cough and sometimes noisy, high-pitched intakes of breath known as stridor.
The observational study, published recently in the journal Pediatrics, describes 75 children who came to the Boston Children's Hospital emergency department...
Covid vaccination of children in 12-14 years age group started in Delhi on Wednesday amid a steady decline in new coronavirus cases being reported in the city.
Pent-up demand, vaccine acceptance, along with countries reopening borders, are fuelling demand, he said, adding in the US travel is really picking up, while...
Tope's comments come a day after Maharashtra reported 893 COVID-19 cases and eight fatalities due to the infection.
Overall, the Omicron variant was found in 92 per cent of the 626 samples analysed at genome sequencing laboratories in the capital till February 22 this year,...
The daily cases of Omicron in the city-state have gone beyond 20,000 expected earlier to 20,312 new infections on Wednesday and 26,032 on Tuesday.
After vaccinating adults and older children, Cambodia approved shots for ages 6-11 in September last year as part of reopening its schools.
The researchers found 67 cases in which the same individual had become infected twice at a 20-60-day interval, and where both infections were due to Omicron...
"It is a silent killer….I suffered in the first wave but recovered in four days, but now in this wave, it has been 25 days and I am still suffering," Ramana...
