Chennai: Another 99 students, who attended a college party in Bengaluru, tested positive for the novel Coronavirus, taking the tally to 281 on Saturday.
New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who is recovering at a private hospital following spine surgery, issued a message to mark the conclusion of his two years in office, thanking the people for supporting his ...
New Delhi: According to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry, India reported 8,774 new cases and 621 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of recoveries recorded was 9,481. With this, t...
New Delhi: Angelique Coetzee, the head of the South African Medical Association, said that the novel Omicron version of the coronavirus causes moderate sickness with few symptoms.
The World Health Organization (WHO) desig...
New Delhi: South Africa in a statement on Saturday said that the country is “being punished” for detecting the omicron variant of the coronavirus which is categorised as the “var...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Andrew Parsons / No 10 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced tighter travel restrictions in response to the new COVID-19 variant. Two cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the United Kingdom. The Omi...
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Switzerland in April 2021. Denis Balibouse/REUTERS The Omicron variant of the coronavirus should technically be called the "Nu" variant, as it is the next letter in...
Rally goers hold signs protesting vaccines at the "World Wide Rally for Freedom", an anti-mask and anti-vaccine rally, at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, May 15, 2021. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images A former nurse will face tri...
An inmate is seen reading a book in her prison cell at Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility in Santee, California. Getty A California appeals court temporarily blocked a vaccine mandate for prison workers. A judge previously issued the mandat...
A young woman reacts as she receives a Pfizer jab against COVID-19, in Diepsloot Township near Johannesburg Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high numb...
Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. Getty/Mandel Ngan The Biden White House is planning an in-person Hanukkah party for next week. The Times of Israel reports the event will go ahead on December 1, despite COVID-19 concerns. The Hanukkah party has be...
Texas Senator Ted Cruz (L), Donald Trump Jr. (R). Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images (L), Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (R) The WHO skipped two letters of the Greek alphabet to name the new coronavirus variant Omicron. Some have speculated that the...
A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at The University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., December 14, 2020. Bryan Woolston/Reuters Pfizer said it can update its COVID-19 vacci...
A person is tested for COVID-19 in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday November 27, 2021. AP Photo/Jerome Delay Two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been discovered in the UK, the country's health secretary said Saturday. The c...
