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New Delhi : The highly transmissible Omicron with three sub-variants is likely replacing the previously dominant Delta strain in India, pushing the daily tally of Covid-19 cases in the country.According to the World Health Organization…

New Delhi : The drive for administering precaution dose to the healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60-plus individuals commenced on Monday across the country. The CoWIN portal has sent over one crore reminder messages to the…

New Delhi : With 410 fresh Omicron infections detected in the last 24 hours, the national tally of this highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus has climbed to 4,033. Of the total, 1,552 people have recovered from the new strain…

London : German researchers are set to study how far rapid antigen tests are able to detect the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19, media reports said."We do not know exactly how well these tests work for Omicron," health…

New Delhi : After a scientist in Cyprus claimed that his team has identified a new Covid variant being dubbed as 'Deltacron', a UK-based virologist has termed it a "lab contamination" and not a new strain.Tom Peacock, a virologist at the…

Varanasi : A team of researchers at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have discovered that multiple genetic mutations could be responsible for the Covid-19 susceptibility in India.The team led by Professor Gyaneshwer Chaubey analysed the…

New Delhi : IANS India got a helping hand from Iran to transport humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan .As External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar had a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the…

London : The emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant could be "first ray of light" that in the future there may be a less severe coronavirus variant that is similar to the common cold, according to a UK scientist.According to…

London : An algorithm that can accurately predict the risk of developing severe complications due to Covid-19, including hospitalisation and death, has been developed by Dutch researchers.The algorithm can be applied to identify persons…

New Delhi : Cyprus has detected a new variant dubbed as "Deltacron", that has a similar genetic background to the Delta variant, coupled with 10 mutations from Omicron.The variant has already affected 25 people in Cyprus.According to Dr…