Omicron is leading to hospitalisations, so people need to shed idea that it is a milder version of the virus and recognise the ‘sheer pace’ at which it spreads, UK PM warns.
Ramaphosa contracted the virus on a day when the country saw a record high of 37,875 new infections overnight, dramatically up from the previous day’s 17,154 cases.
A 34-year old foreign traveller from Ireland and a 20-year-old man from Italy Sunday tested positive for the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh respectively.
The virologists and epidemiologists underlined that booster doses of any vaccine (except live attenuated like oral polio vaccine or OPV, measles) exponentially raise antibody levels.
Emergence of Omicron could pose downside risk to growth, while inflation is also edging up. Tolerating inflation to support growth was right call, but change is needed in future.
The study, primarily involving researchers from the Frankfurt-based Goethe University, has not yet been peer-reviewed. It has been shared on the preprint portal medRxiv.
BBMP Commissioner Gaurav Gupta says 'finding source of Omicron' is very difficult, but 'task at hand is to test, isolate patients and trace contacts of every case'.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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