Coronavirus

Wellington : New Zealand reported two community cases of Omicron BA.2.75 on Tuesday, the first time this subvariant has been detected in the country.Both cases are linked to known imported cases and are isolating at home, said the Ministry…

New Delhi : India on Monday reported 16,935 Covid infections, a decline against previous day's 20,528 count, as per the Union Health Ministry data.In the same period, 51 fatalities took the nationwide death toll to 5,25,760. Meanwhile,…

New York : About 23 per cent of people infected with Covid will become "long haulers", finds a study that identifies predictors of who is likely to develop the sometimes-debilitating symptoms that can last for months. The study finds…

New York : A second booster shot significantly improved effectiveness against widespread variants Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1, finds a study led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All variants of Omicron are…

New Delhi : India on Sunday reached the historic milestone of 200 crore mark in Covid-19 vaccination. The milestone has been achieved after 18 months when the nation began the mass vaccination on January 16, 2021. According to the Co-Win…

New Delhi : India reported 20,528 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, which is a marginal rise against the previous day's count of 20,044, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the same period, the country reported 49 more Covid…

New York : Vaccine protection against Covid-19 is short-lived and, therefore, booster shots are important, says a new study."The mRNA vaccines produce the highest levels of antibody response and in our analysis confer more durable…

New Delhi : India reported 20,044 Covid infections in the past 24 hours, a marginal rise against previous day's 20,038 count, as per Union Health Ministry data on Saturday.In the same period, 56 fatalities took the nationwide death toll to…

Los Angeles : The BA.5 Omicron subvariant, now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, is four times more resistant to Covid-19 vaccines, according to a new study published in Nature. The study found the variant is four times more…

Srinagar : The Government today informed that 149 fresh positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19)have been reported today; 73 from Jammu division and 76 from Kashmir division, thus taking the total number of positive cases to 456605.…