Omicron variant

New Delhi : India has reported 699 new Covid cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.The country's total active caseload currently stands at 6,559 which is 0.01 per cent of total cases.With the…

Los Angeles : The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for over 90 per cent of new Covid-19 cases reported in the US, according to the latest estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).…

New Delhi : India recorded a single-day rise of 918 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours pushing the active cases to 6,350, according to the Union health ministry data on Monday. Meanwhile, the country also reported four Covid deaths -- two…

Tokyo : The XBB.1.5 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has high transmissibility and infectivity, according to a study published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan found that the relative…

New York : Covid-19 can cause difficulty recognising faces and navigational problems, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Cortex, is the first to report "prosopagnosia," also known as face blindness, following…

New Delhi : A day after Health Ministry wrote to states and UTs asking them to remain vigilant and to focus on fivefold strategy to curb the infection, India on Sunday reported 524 new Covid cases in last 24 hours, the highest in 113 days.…

London : The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is much less likely to lead to long Covid than the variant circulating at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, new research shows. The study found that healthcare workers infected with the original…

New York : People who have had Covid-19 are at increased risk of developing gastrointestinal (GI) disorders such as liver problems, acute pancreatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, and ulcers, within a year after infection…

New York : Emerging evidence suggests that Covid virus can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months and potentially years after infection, an updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

New York : "Covid rebound," in which evidence of the illness disappears and then returns days or weeks later, is surprisingly common, even among patients who did not take the antiviral Paxlovid, finds a study. Pfizer's antiviral drug…