Coronavirus

A 33-year-old "unvaccinated" youth in Mumbai became the 4th case of Omicron Covid Variant in India. He had returned from South Africa.

Omicron lands in India. Two cases of Omicron have been detected in Karnataka through genome sequencing effort.

The Third Wave emergency might necessitate a preparation of 6000 hospital beds and the health department has already readied 3000 for the occasion.

According to a study, a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, C.1.2 might be more transmissible and evade vaccination protection.

The Covid-19 vaccination coverage in the country has crossed 62 crore doses, which is a good sign indeed.

Covid-19 could be entering a stage of endemicity in India, with low to moderate levels of transmission, according to World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan.

India's drug regulator approved Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D Covid Vaccine for emergency use in children above 12 years of age.

"Bharat Biotech's intranasal vaccine is the first nasal vaccine that has received the regulatory approval for Phase 2/3 trials."

Coronavirus cases continue to rise across the United States, led by the fast-spreading and highly infectious Delta Variant.

The focus of this research is to see if a person can complete the immunisation course by receiving two distinct vaccine doses, one of Covishield and one of Covaxin.