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Australia's caseload crosses 500,000 amid Covid-19 resurgence

In the last 24 hours,the country reported more than 47,000 cases and four fatalities

Why are so many vaccinated people getting Covid-19 lately

Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately? A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if it doesn't make them very sick, and its surge coincided with the holiday travel season in many places. People might mistakenly think the COVID-19 vaccines will completely block infection, but the shots are mainly designed to prevent severe illness, says Louis Mansky, a virus researcher at the University of Minnesota. And the vaccines are still doing their job on that front, particularly for people who've gotten boosters. Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine still offer strong protection against serious illness from omicron. While those initial doses aren't very good at blocking omicron infection, boosters particularly with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines rev up levels of the antibodies to help fend off ...

Rising Omicron cases can impact growth by 0.3% in March quarter: Report

The downside risks at the current juncture emanate from more states imposing restrictions, the restrictions extending beyond January 2022 and also a slowdown in global recovery: Economists

Bengal in throes of third Covid wave, infection curve may rise: Experts

Bengal and eastern India's largest metropolis Kolkata, is in the throes of a third wave of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic which may last well into February with a peak sometime in the second week of this month , according to health experts. They held the lack of vision on the part of the state administration in allowing large congregations and festivities as well as Covid fatigue and complacency on the part of people for the current surge of Covid-19 cases here. "If you see the surge in the last five days, it's evident that the third wave is already here in West Bengal. It's also there in other metros like New Delhi and Mumbai. Cases in our state, especially in Kolkata have gone up by 12 fold. Every third person coming for a test is testing positive for the disease, "Dr Anima Halder principal of state-run Infectious Diseases and Beliaghata General (ID&BG) Hospital told PTI. West Bengal like the rest of the country witnessed its first wave in March 2020 and another after elections ..

Covid-19 infections in Odisha more than double in four days

The State has reported 680 fresh cases on Monday, which is more than double of the cases reported on January 1

Omicron: Rajasthan is third worst-hit state at 174 infections so far

First in the list is Maharashtra with 510 cases followed by Delhi which has recorded 351 Omicron infections

Lockdown will be imposed in Mumbai if daily Covid cases cross 20,000: Mayor

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray might address the citizens in a couple of days, the mayor said

IIT Kharagpur reports 60 Covid infections, including 40 students

Most of those infected are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic

Covid-19: Omicron cases rise to 1,892 in India, Maharashtra worst-hit

With 192 new cases of highly transmissible Covid variant Omicron detected in the last 24 hours, India's Omicron tally on Tuesday rose to 1,892 cases.

80 doctors, students at Patiala medical college test positive for Covid-19

This comes as Patiala is turning out to be the worst-hit district in Punjab in terms of a rising number of coronavirus cases

Surge in cases indicative of third Covid-19 wave in India: Expert

Omicron is being detected in most of the states in the country, Dr N K Arora, the chairman of the COVID-19 working group of the NTAGI, said on Tuesday

Australia regulator to review price hike in Covid-19 antigen tests

Australia's antitrust regulator said it has contacted suppliers of Covid-19 rapid antigen test kits to examine pricing pressures in the market

DATA STORY: India logs 37,379 new cases, most since September 9

India has so far administered 1,467,018,464 vaccine doses. That is 4196.24 per cent of its total caseload, and 104.87 per cent of its population

Over 1 mn Covid cases reported in US amid rapid spread of Omicron variant

The US on Monday reported over 1 million COVID-19 cases amid rapid spread of the Omicron variant.The US health authorities registered more than three times as many new cases as in any previous wave of the coronavirus, over 1 million reported on Monday alone, reported USA TODAY.A substantial increase in coronavirus infections was expected when this week's numbers came out, but nothing like this. About 1 of every 100 Americans will have been reported as a positive case in just the last week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.On Tuesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris planned to meet with the White House coronavirus response team to discuss a course of action as omicron becomes ubiquitous, reported USA TODAY.By 7:30 pm ET Monday, Johns Hopkins University data showed about 1,042,000 more cases than the day before, and it wasn't immediately clear that all states had reported in. That count clearly includes hefty numbers of backlogged cases.About ...

As Covid cases spike, Mumbai civic body tweaks sealing rules for buildings

The civic body has now made isolation mandatory for at least 10 days from the onset of symptoms or testing in the case of asymptomatic patients

Covid-19 cases in Pune city rising, but symptoms mild, says mayor

The 47 Omicron patients in the state's second largest city also have mild symptoms

Covid-19 pandemic: South Korea records first Omicron variant death

The patient was posthumously found to have contracted the omicron variant

Mixing Covaxin and Covishield induces four times more antibodies: Study

The Spike-protein neutralizing antibodies found in the mixed vaccine groups were significantly higher than the same-vaccine groups

Third Covid-19 wave is here; 75% cases in metros Omicron: NTAGI's N K Arora

New variant in 81% of samples genome tested: Delhi health minister

Follow Covid-related guidelines, not take things lightly: Jeev Milkha Singh

He was speaking after inaugurating a Mini Covid Care Centre