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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: COVID-19

Home Secy holds meeting over Omicron, govt to review decision on restarting foreign flights

Modi govt had Friday announced resumption of scheduled international commercial flights from 15 December, but will now review SOP on testing and surveilling incoming passengers.

Omicron variant in mind, Health Secretary urges states to monitor hotspots, enhance testing

Rajesh Bhushan Sunday stressed on rigorous surveillance of international passengers, ensuring prompt dispatch of samples for genome sequencing and strict enforcement of Covid rules.

South Africans who tested Covid positive in India infected with Delta variant, says official

The official added that the South Africans tested positive on 11 and 20 November debunking the fear of any possible spread of the new Covid variant B.1.1.529, known as Omicron.

Why Covid cases in India are decreasing, despite low double vaccination rate

WHO’s chief scientist said in late August that India seems to be ‘entering some stage of endemicity’.

‘Draconian’ Covid travel bans are ‘misdirected’, South African health minister says

At a news briefing Friday, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said that the approach is wrong, misdirected and that some countries' leaders are finding a scapegoat to a worldwide problem.

Karnataka to conduct RT PCR test of passengers arriving from Omicron-affected countries

Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar said passengers found positive will stay near the airport, and announced mandatory home quarantine for all arrivals from these countries.

Maharashtra to fine organisations Rs 50,000 for violating Covid norms

In Mumbai, passengers arriving from South Africa will be quarantined and their samples will be sent for genome sequencing.

Bangladesh suspends travel from South Africa as Omicron threat looms

Calling the new Covid variant 'extremely aggressive', Bangladesh's Health Minister Zahid Maleque said they are strengthening screening procedures at all airports and ports.

Two cases of Omicron variant detected in UK, patients in self-isolation

The patients were found in Chelmsford and Nottingham. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the two cases are linked.

Delhi L-G asks hospitals to prepare to deal with any emergency as concerns grow over Omicron

Delhi Disaster Management Authority is likely to take a call on RT-PCR testing of international passengers and quarantining arrivals from countries where the variant has been found.

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.