Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan asked states and union territories to send all COVID-19 positive specimens of passengers for genome sequencing
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the ability to track coronavirus is “under threat" as reporting and genomic sequences are declining, making it harder to...
The Central government advised caution and continuous alertness to the states reporting a surge in COVID-19 cases during the past few weeks, and to step up...
National Centre for Disease Control Director Dr Sujeet Kumar Singh said, "Omicron sub-variants have not increased the deaths rate, but people are not following COVID-19 appropriate...
Out of 269 COVID-19 samples from Mumbai analysed during the 13th genome sequencing series, 268 were found infected with Omicron sub-variants of coronavirus
COVID-19: Almost five per cent of samples sent for genome sequencing from central and south east Delhi tested positive for the BA.5 sub-variant and nearly two...
According to NCDC Director Dr Sujeet Singh, directions have been given by the Union Health Ministry to see how a particular COVID-19 variant is behaving in...
The researchers asked participants about the 23 most common symptoms of long COVID in children and used the World Health Organisation definition of long COVID as...
The current surge of coronavirus cases in West Bengal might not be as dangerous as it was during its outbreak in 2020 but more and more...
In the new phase of the universalisation of the COVID-19 vaccination drive, the Union Government will procure and supply (free of cost) 75 per cent of...
A total of 3,661,899 precaution doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to those aged 18-59 years till 7 am, according to the Health Ministry's...
Fourth wave scare in India: COVID-19 cases have been on the rise, India reported more than 12,000 cases on June 16, for first time since late-Feb