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New Covid Omicron sub-variant found in India: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 7 (ANI): A new sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in various countries including India, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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Cyprus reinstates mandatory mask-wearing indoors after coronavirus spike
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], July 6 (ANI/Xinhua): The government of Cyprus has reintroduced the mandatory wearing of masks indoors, just over a month after scrapping the measure.
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Pakistan registers 59 new COVID cases in 24 hours
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Pakistan on Sunday reported 59 new COVID-19 cases with the positivity rate at 0.41 per cent in the last 24-hours.
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Philippines detects 2 cases of Omicron sub-variant BA.5
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], June 3 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines has detected COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.5 from two people in the same household in a province north of the capital, an official from the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday.
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BA.4, BA.5 are quite mild, behaving like other Omicron sub-variants: Exper
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): As India has been witnessing the subvariants of Omicron, Dr Tarun Kumar Sahni, Internal medicine and hyperbaric Oxygen therapist at Indraprastha Apollo hospital on Tuesday clarified that the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages are quite "mild" because they are behav
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Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants of COVID-19 will not lead to surge in cases
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): After India witnessed cases of the sub-variants of Omicron, Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the Indian Medical Association's national task force on Tuesday said that these newly-detected sub-lineages will not cause a surge in infections but people still n
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Pakistan reports 1st case of COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12.1
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 10 (ANI): Pakistan on Monday reported the first case of COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12.1.
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Philippines detects first case of Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], April 27 (ANI/Sputnik): The Philippines has detected the first Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12 in a 52-year-old Finnish female who arrived in the country on April 2, the Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday.
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New COVID mutant 'XE' found in UK, more transmissible than Omicron sub-v
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 2 (ANI): A new COVID mutant 'XE' has been found in the UK, the World Health Organisation has said in its latest report and noted that it may be more transmissible than the BA.2 sublineage of COVID-19.
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Covid-19: Myanmar logs 31 cases of Omicron sub-variant
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], March 18 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar confirmed its first batch of 31 cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant's BA.2 sub-lineage on Friday, the Ministry of Health said.
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