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Topic: COVID-19

Prioritise 1st & 2nd vaccine dose, but those with low immunity need booster: US epidemiologist

Dr Brian Wahl of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says Covid seems to be endemic in India, and vaccine mandates and vaccination for children may be required.

Mystery of how Karnataka doctor got Omicron unsolved, but community transmission ‘improbable’

Karnataka was India’s first state to report 2 Omicron cases on 2 December. One of them is a local doctor with no travel history of his own or among 200 contacts.

Modi, Shah, Priyanka Chopra ‘vaccinated’ in Bihar, local operator sacked for data fraud

Bihar data on Covid-19 vaccine came into question after the goof-up was revealed. Bihar health minister says it’s mischief by some elements, but denies any data credibility issues.

India registers 6,822 new Covid cases in past 24 hours, lowest in 558 days

The death toll climbed to 4,73,757 with 220 fresh fatalities while a dip of 3,402 cases has been recorded in the active caseload, according to health ministry data.

India registers 8,306 new Covid infections in last 24 hours, active cases drop to 98,416

The active cases comprise of 0.28% of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid recovery rate was recorded at 98.35%, the health ministry data said.

9 people test positive for Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Jaipur

Those infected include four members of a family who had recently returned from South Africa and five others.

Delhi reports first case of Omicron variant

A 37-year-old man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania has tested positive, making it the first case of Omicron variant in the national capital and the fifth in the country.

India registers 2,796 deaths as Bihar reconciles Covid data

New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 2,796 fatalities with Bihar carrying out a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data, pushing the country's...

4th case of Omicron in India detected in Maharashtra

The patient is a 33-year-old man, who arrived in Delhi from South Africa on 23 November, and had given his samples for Covid testing at the Delhi airport. He later flew to Mumbai.

Take necessary steps as Covid cases rising in many districts, Centre tells 6 states

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Odisha and Mizoram over the concerning rise in Covid cases.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.