omicron cases

The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is less likely to cause long COVID than the Delta strain, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. Long COVID is defined as having new or ongoing symptoms four weeks or more after the…

India now has a confirmed case of a person infected with the XE variant, according to Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG) bulletin. The location…

Covid vaccination of all eligible children at the earliest is a priority for the government and specialised programmes will need to be conducted for it in schools,…

India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 127 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 11,365. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.02…

The World Health Organisation experts have now pointed out that there could now be a new Omicron sublineage called the BA 3 As the world slowly returns back to normalcy, the Covid-19 cases have gone back to an all-time low but the new form…

Kerkhove informed that the WHO is looking at the real world data and tracking severity signals in people. Covid-19 situation in India, Top 10 latest Covid updates, Coronavirus latest news: Although the number of daily Covid infections…

Daily new COVID-19 cases in India fell below 20,000 after 51 days, taking the total virus tally to 4,28,22,473, while the active cases dipped to 2,24,187, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday Daily new COVID-19…

Singapore reported 10,505 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the fourth time this week that daily infection count exceeded the 10,000 mark. Daily coronavirus count exceeding the 10,000 mark was not unexpected due to highly transmissible…

Scientists are now tracking a rise in cases caused by a close cousin known as BA.2, which is starting to outcompete BA.1 in parts of Europe and Asia. The following is what we know so far about the new subvariant: The highly transmissible…

In January, 9,672 omicron samples were found which was about 75 per cent of total sequenced samples and AY lineage was found in 3,201 samples and Delta was found in 1,578 samples, he said. As many as 9,672 Omicron samples were found in…