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Kerala: Man who returned from UK on Nov 21, tests COVID positive; sample s
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], December 4 (ANI): Amid rising concerns regarding the Omicron variant of COVID-19, a traveller from the United Kingdom who landed in Kerala tested COVID-19 positive.
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Omicron variant now confirmed in ten US states
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Cases of the coronavirus Omicron variant have been reported by health officials in five additional US states today, bringing the total number of states with confirmed infections to ten.
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US stocks down 2nd week in row on Federal Reserve Rate hike, Omicron fears
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): US stocks tumbled for a second week in a row, roiled by fears of an imminent rate hike by the Federal Reserve and the possibility of another round of global economic turmoil from potential measures to address the coronavirus Omicron variant.
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Omicron variant detected in 4 more US states, bringing total to 9
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Cases of the coronavirus Omicron variant have been reported by health officials in four additional US states on Friday, bringing the total up to nine states with confirmed infections.
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J-K: COVID negative international travellers from 'at risk' nations to qua
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 4 (ANI): With the emergence of COVID-19 Omicron variant cases, Jammu and Kashmir government, in its advisory, said that international travellers from 'at risk' nations, who test negative at the Srinagar airport, will have to home quarantine for
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Omicron variant: Former Puducherry CM requests PM Modi to allow booster do
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Puducherry [India], December 4 (ANI): Former Chief Minister of Puducherry, V Narayanasamy has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow booster dose for people jabbed with two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
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Omicron likely to reinforce IMF downgrade of global growth forecasts - Man
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The coronavirus Omicron variant is likely to reinforce a downgrade of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) outlook on the global economy, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday.
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COVID-19: Allow booster dose for healthcare, front line workers, writes Te
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 4 (ANI): Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao on Friday wrote to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to reduce the gap between the two doses of Covishield and allow booster dose for frontline workers in view of emerging COVID-19 variants.
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Fully prepared to fight Omicron variant of COVID-19, says Haryana Health M
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], December 3 (ANI): Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday said that the State Health Department has been fully vaccinated to fight the new Omicron variant of Coronavirus.
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Omicron detected in 38 countries but Delta remains dominant COVID-19 varia
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 3 (ANI): Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead of COVID-19 response at WHO's Emergency Diseases Unit, said on Friday that the Omicron strain of coronavirus has been identified in 38 countries, but Delta remains the dominant variant of COVID-19, reported Sputni
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Spread of Omicron avoidable if precautions taken, says senior scientist
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): A possible third wave of pandemic triggered by Omicron, the new variant of COVID-19, can be avoided if necessary precautions are taken, a senior scientist said on Friday and noted that the country also has the advantage of a large section of population
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South-East Asia Region should strengthen COVID-19 response measures to cur
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] December 3 (ANI): As India confirmed two cases of Omicron, the World Health Organization on Friday said that countries in South-East Asia Region should further strengthen COVID-19 response measures to curtail the spread of the virus and its variants.
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