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New Delhi : The sudden spike in the number of Covid cases in India is driven by an increased spread of Omicron variant in the country, which may have already started the third wave, experts said on Monday.Most states and large cities in…

New Delhi : As India braces for the peak of the third Covid wave with Omicron taking over all other existing variants, scientists are scrambling to find how this heavily-mutated virus spreads so quickly and affects people at an alarmingly…

New Delhi : Existing vaccines are not as effective against Omicron as they were against the original virus, and thus boosters may help enhance immunity, health experts said here.The Omicron variant, being highly transmissible, has the…

London : Although the Omicron variant of Covid has been shown to evade vaccines, two new studies led by the UK health agency showed that a third booster dose increases vaccines' effectiveness by 88 per cent.The studies, led by the UK Health…

London : The UK National Health Service can avoid becoming overwhelmed only if the Omicron variant turns out to be five to 10 times milder than Delta, according to new modelling.But if Omicron turns out to be just half as severe as Delta,…

New Delhi : Omicron is less severe than the previous Covid-19 variants because it does not cause as much damage in the lungs, a spate of studies have suggested.A study by a consortium of US and Japanese scientists on hamsters and mice found…

New York : As Covid-19 cases, fuelled by the fast-moving Omicron variant, swamp hospitals across the globe, a US-based doctor said that the surge is "unlike anything we have ever seen"."It's unlike anything we have ever seen, even at the…

New York : The fast-spreading Omicron variant is "nothing more than a seasonal cold virus" and there is little we can do to stop this virus from infecting people, claims a US-based doctor.Afshine Emrani, MD, who holds a Fellowship in the…

London : The fast-spreading Omicron variant is "not the same disease we were seeing a year ago" and high Covid death rates in the UK are "now history", according to John Bell, regius professor of medicine at the Oxford University.Bell, who…

Washington : The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has investigated a cluster of Omicron infections in Nebraska state and found that the variant causes faster onset of infection symptoms. But, people who get reinfected with the…