Omicron Variant

New York: Infection from the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is not mild as generally touted, rather is as deadly as Delta, Alpha and other strains that claimed thousands of lives globally, finds a study. Omicron was first detected by South…

Stockholm: One in five hospital staff was infected by the Omicron variant of Covid-19 soon after having had the third vaccine dose, according to a Swedish study. Although the majority had only mild symptoms, the virus load was…

Seoul: South Korea's new daily Covid-19 cases remained below 300,000 for the second consecutive day on Saturday as the Omicron variant was spreading at a slower pace after peaking out in March. The country reported 264,171 new Covid-19…

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Directorate of Public health in a statement said that the Delta variant of Covid-19 is now totally replaced by the Omicron variant in the state. The report of the state public health department said that 68.4 per…

Los Angeles: The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant now makes up about 35 per cent of new Covid-19 infections in the US, according to the data updated Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This data is…

New Delhi:  Covid's third wave triggered by the Omicron variant pulled down India's domestic air passenger traffic growth in January 2022 on a year-on-year basis. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), India's…

Tokyo:  Japan's unemployment rate rose marginally to 2.8 per cent in January due to increasing cases of Covid-19 negatively impacting the labour market, s government report said on Friday. From the previous month, on a…

New York:  Experts are warning of the spread of a new strain of Omicron variant in the US and potential health effects after infection, as major states in the country rushed to shed off Covid-19 restrictions amid a continuous decline in…

Sydney:  The highly contagious Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, has significantly increased the number of people reinfected with Covid, unlike previous variants, experts contended in an article on Nature. A recent study by the Imperial…

Bengaluru:  The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly was admitted to the Narayana Health City hospital here for a cardiac check-up on Friday. The BCCI president is in the city for the Indian Premier League…