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Health workers inside an Isolation Ward for COVID-19 to treat persons infected with the Omicron variant, at Omandhurar Government Medical College Hospital, in Chennai, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Centre frames protocol for Omicron patients

Patients of the new coronavirus variant have to be treated in designated Covid facilities with separate isolation area

9 Dec 2021 1:16 AM IST

People walk around in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo on Thursday, January. 7, 2021, after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced a state of emergency. Japan declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and three nearby prefectures, starting Friday as coronavirus cases continued to surge in the nation. (AP/Hiro Komae)

Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant

Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus

11 Jan 2021 11:37 AM IST

An air passengers undergo gives sample for the COVID-19 tests at the airport, in Kolkata, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (PTI Photo)

'India develops herd immunity; BF.7 variant may not be as serious as...

The official said the 'Zero Covid Policy' followed by China is one of the reasons for the outbreak of the infection in...

25 Dec 2022 12:09 PM IST

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya (ANI file image)

COVID: Mandaviya takes stock of XE variant, directs officials to boost...

The minister asked the officials to constantly review the availability of essential drugs required in the treatment of...

12 April 2022 1:30 PM IST

A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Gujarat detects its first case of Omicron's sub-variant XE

Infected person tested COVID positive last month, but report on XE sub-variant received only yesterday

9 April 2022 1:11 PM IST