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Kids and adults wait for their booster or second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at Northwest Community Church in Chicago. (AP/Nam Y. Huh, File)

US faces a double coronavirus surge as omicron advances

Universities are abruptly closing classrooms during finals week with infections multiplying at a fast rate

16 Dec 2021 11:25 AM IST

A used face mask on Westminster Bridge in London. (Photo: AP)

Omicron infects 70 times faster but is less severe, study says

The supercharged speed of omicron's spread in the human bronchus was found 24 hours following infection

16 Dec 2021 10:15 AM IST

$British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Stow Health Vaccination center, in Westminster, London. Johnson says that Britain faces a \tidal wave\ of infections from the omicron coronavirus variant and he has announced a huge increase in booster vaccinations to strengthen defenses against it. (Jeremy Selwyn/Pool Photo via AP)$ World

Unprecedented Omicron spread, 'probably' in most countries: WHO

Omicron now accounts for around 3 percent of cases in the US, a figure that is expected to rise rapidly as has been seen...

15 Dec 2021 10:39 AM IST

A woman hold her arm after receiving Covishield COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Mumbai, India, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Vaccines, previous infection offer 'stronger than basic' protection...

The researchers looked at 28 serum samples from patients recovering from the original strain of SARS-CoV-2

13 Dec 2021 1:10 PM IST

Medical workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant at a temporary screening clinic for coronavirus in Seoul. (Photo: AP)

South Korea to test AI-powered facial recognition to track COVID-19...

The nationally funded project in Bucheon is due to become operational in January, a city official told Reuters

13 Dec 2021 11:24 AM IST

Melva Mlambo, right, and Puseletso Lesofi, both medical scientists prepare to sequence COVID-19 omicron samples at the Ndlovu Research Center in Elandsdoorn, South Africa. (AP /Jerome Delay)

Signs of Omicron milder than Delta variant: South African doctors

Just 3% of patients hospitalized recently with COVID-19 have died, versus about 20% in the country's earlier outbreaks

12 Dec 2021 12:23 PM IST

A staffer conducts thermal screening of a passenger at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, in Mumbai. (PTI)

Second Omicron case reported in Delhi; tally in India rises to 33

The patient, a resident of Ranchi, had travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight...

11 Dec 2021 11:36 AM IST

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. (Susan Walsh| AP)

Top US scientist Fauci says early reports encouraging about omicron...

Early indications suggest Omicron may be less dangerous than delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalizations

6 Dec 2021 10:12 AM IST

A security personnel santises the hands of a visitor as she checks the COVID vaccination certificate of the visitor at the entrance of a mall, in Bengaluru, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. (PTI)

17 new Omicron cases detected in India

Travel history, contacts, Africa links are being probed; tally goes up to 21

6 Dec 2021 7:24 AM IST

Arriving passengers leave a terminal at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. (Photo: AFP)

Tanzania returnee tests positive for COVID in Mumbai, officials...

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said that his sample has been sent for genome sequencing

5 Dec 2021 1:43 PM IST

Till now, 17 people (who come from abroad) have tested positive for Covid and they have been admitted to the hospital. (Representational image: ANI)

First Omicron case in Delhi after Tanzania returnee tests positive;...

Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop international flights in view...

5 Dec 2021 12:08 PM IST

This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. (AP)

Omicron will be in major cities but with mild symptoms: Former CSIR...

As per the WHO, the first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on November 9 this year

5 Dec 2021 9:29 AM IST