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COVID-19 has never been zero but surveillance and testing scaled up: ICMR
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
COVID-19 cases in India are declining after a recent peak, with the Nimbus variant from Singapore detected. ICMR-NIV reports mild symptoms from Omicron sub-variants. The government focuses on surveillance, transmission, and vaccine preparedness.
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COVID-19: Union Health Minister cautions people not to panic, remain alert
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday asked the public not to panic about COVID-19, but be alert and follow the directives issued by the government from time to time.
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India detects 11 COVID-19 Omicron sub-variants in international passengers
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Eleven Omicron sub-variants were found during testing of international travellers and all these variants earlier reported as present in the country, the sources said. A total of 19,227 samples of international travellers were tested, out of which 124 were found positive and were isolated
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Ahead of 20th Party Congress, China detects new Omicron sub-variants in fr
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 11 (ANI): New Omicron sub-variants BF.7 and BA.5.1.7, which are highly infectious with greater transmissibility have been detected in China, in the latest COVID flare-up, which comes just ahead of the 20th Party Congress.
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Omicron strains 20-30 pc more infectious: INSACOG to review data of genom
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): Amid rising COVID cases in the national capital and other States, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) will review the data of genomic surveillance of COVID-19 variants on Friday, said sources.
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Thailand sees rise in severe COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], July 18 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of severe COVID-19 cases and coronavirus-related deaths in Thailand has increased slightly, fuelled by the Omicron sub-variants and the country's long holidays.
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Cyprus reinstates mandatory mask-wearing indoors after coronavirus spike
Updated : 3 years, 10 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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BA.4, BA.5 are quite mild, behaving like other Omicron sub-variants: Exper
Updated : 3 years, 12 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 : 4 years 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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