Omicron variant

Stockholm : Sweden has discarded nearly 8.5 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19, local media reported. The discarded doses equal to about 20 per cent of vaccine doses Sweden has procured, according to Swedish Public Health Agency's…

Los Angeles : The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for about three-fourths of all Covid-19 cases reported in the US this week, according to the estimates released by the US Centers for Disease Control and…

Beijing : No new Covid-19 variants have emerged in China during the recent surge in infections since the country ended its zero-Covid policy, according to an analysis of cases in Beijing published in The Lancet. The study suggests two…

Varanasi : A study by scientists of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has claimed that the actual number of Covid-19 cases in India, including unreported and asymptomatic, could be 17 times more than the official figure of 4.5 crore.…

Canberra : Australian Minister for Health Mark Butler on Wednesday said the government has accepted the advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) to roll out a new round of booster shots. From February…

New York : Long Covid patients are susceptible to developing only seven health symptoms for up to a year following the infection, a new study has revealed. These seven symptoms are fast-beating heart, hair loss, fatigue, chest pain,…

Geneva : The WHO has said that the Covid-19 pandemic still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO's highest alert level. The announcement came amid the recent increase of weekly reported deaths…

Hong Kong : In people with multiple health conditions, a booster (third) dose of a Covid vaccine was associated with a 90 per cent reduction in death when compared to two doses, a new study has shown. "We found a substantially reduced…

Beijing : China has conducted emergency reviews and granted conditional approval for two homegrown drugs for COVID-19 treatment, the National Medical Products Administration said on Sunday. The applications for the innovative drugs…

Los Angeles : Omicron's new subvariant XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for over 60 per cent of the Covid-19 cases in the US for the week ending January 28, according to data released on Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and…