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In Tswane, the municipality that includes the capital Pretoria, 52 children under the age of 2 diagnosed with the coronavirus have been admitted and one has died. (Bloomberg Image)

Toddlers make up 10% of hospital cases in Omicron epicenter in...

More kids are being admitted than during the early stages of the country entering the current fourth wave of infections

30 Nov 2021 10:12 AM GMT

A policewoman directs a pedestrian towards a COVID-19 testing booth in Jammu. (Photo: AP)

14-days travel details, negative RT-PCR: New guidelines for...

Various states have already begun to re-tighten curbs and urgently trace people who arrived from abroad

29 Nov 2021 2:14 AM GMT

A throat swab is taken from a patient to test for COVID-19 at a facility in Soweto, South Africa, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP)

South Africa lifts curfew as Omicron wave subsides

Infections dropped by almost 30% last week compared to the preceding seven days while hospital admissions also declined...

31 Dec 2021 6:22 AM GMT

Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday said the Cabinet has approved increasing the subsidy amount for DAP fertiliser for the benefits of farmers. (Photo:PTI)

45 crore COVID vaccines a month soon: Mansukh Mandaviya

Buffer stocks of medicines and oxygen had been prepared and 48,000 ventilators had been distributed to the states, the...

21 Dec 2021 1:15 AM GMT

A man receives a nasal swab during a test for Covid-19 at a street-side testing booth in New York. (APF)

No evidence Omicron has lower severity than Delta variant: UK study

The study estimates that the risk of reinfection with the Omicron variant is 5.4 times greater than that of the Delta...

20 Dec 2021 8:39 AM GMT

A health workers conducts thermal screening of a passenger at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International airport amid concern over Omicron variant of coronavirus, in Ahmedabad (PTI)

Traders brace for third wave as Omicron cases rise in Delhi

On Tuesday, the minister said that the Omicron variant had not spread in the community so far and the situation was...

18 Dec 2021 11:19 AM GMT

A medical worker collects swab sample of a passenger for Covid-19 test amid fear of spread of Omicron varaint, at Charbagh railway station in Lucknow. (PTI /Nand Kumar)

4 more Omicron cases detected in Delhi: City health minister

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has not spread in the community so far and the situation is under control, he...

14 Dec 2021 7:52 AM GMT

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on October 31, 2020 to announce new lockdown restrictions in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

UK announces booster drive to fight 'tidal wave' of Omicron

Uk began easing coronavirus restrictions in June and the alert level was at stage three, which means the epidemic is in...

13 Dec 2021 5:17 AM GMT

nurse prepares a ward that is set up to treat patients infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant, at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. (PTI Photo)

India reports two more Omicron cases, total tally rises to 35

The two new cases were reported from Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh

12 Dec 2021 8:15 AM GMT

A lab technician (L) works inside a pathological lab equipped to screen Covid-19 coronavirus patients and patients infected with the Omicron variant arriving from listed high risk destinations at a government hospital in Chennai on December 6, 2021. (Arun SANKAR / AFP)

Top WHO, US scientists say Omicron no worse than other virus variants

US scientist Anthony Fauci echoed the WHO's view, saying Omicron did not appear worse than prior strains based on early...

8 Dec 2021 6:36 AM GMT

Omicron has taken over our Christmas in a way no one expected. (Representational Image. AFP)

Kishwar Desai | No kisses under the mistletoe; but shouldn't libraries...

Students from Kings College are in the middle of a protest saying that they would like to remain in the library for 24...

5 Dec 2021 7:55 PM GMT

Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass. U.S. regulators have opened up COVID-19 booster shots to all and more adults, Friday, Nov. 19, letting them choose another dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. (AP)

US makes negative COVID-19 test report mandatory for all incoming...

Air passengers will also be required to confirm in the form of an attestation that the information they present is true,...

5 Dec 2021 6:32 AM GMT