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54 Omicron cases in Delhi, 3 have no travel history: Satyendar Jain

Jain also reiterated the demand to stop all international flights

Omicron variant three times more transmissible: Centre warns states

The Union health ministry has noted said that 200 cases of Omicron have been detected in the country, so far

Omicron variant: Event cancelled better than life cancelled, says WHO

A number of countries have acted to try to halt the spread of the Omicron variant, including imposing travel curbs

AstraZeneca Covid vaccine protection wanes after three months: Lancet study

The vaccine is known as Covishield in India

Madhya Pradesh sees 23 Covid-19 cases, 1 death; active tally now 187

The total number of Covid cases in Madhya Pradesh reached 793,532

Covid-19 pandemic: 21 fresh cases, one more death in Rajasthan

Rajasthan on Tuesday recorded 21 fresh COVID-19 cases and one more death, according to an official report.

Mumbai: Permission needed for gatherings of 200 and more people

Violation guidelines will attract action under the IPC and Disaster Management Act, 2005

Kerala's reports 2,748 fresh Covid-19 infections, 233 fatalities

As many as 56,808 samples were tested in the last 24 hours

Highly vaccinated UAE reports most virus infections in months

A nationwide mask mandate remains in place outdoors, but Dubai's bars and restaurants have been teeming with mask-less revelers

Top headlines: Govt blocks 20 YouTube channels; 200 Omicron cases in India

Business Standard brings you the top stories on Tuesday

Total number of Omicron cases in Delhi rises to 54: Govt data

On Monday, 93 fresh coronavirus cases were logged with a positivity rate of 0.20%

DATA STORY: India logs 5,326 new cases; death toll rises to 478,007

India has so far administered 1,383,478,181 vaccine doses. That is 3980.98 per cent of its total caseload, and 98.9 per cent of its population

Omicron less likely to cause severe lung illness than Delta variant: Study

A team of researchers created synthetic viruses - known as 'pseudoviruses' - that carried key mutations found in the Delta and Omicron strains -- to study the virus's behaviour

Covid: Three of Delhi's Omicron positive cases have no travel history

Seeing the steady rise in the Omicron infection, Delhi government on Monday announced that now all Omicron positive samples will be sent for genome sequencing

Thailand halts quarantine-free entry for travellers as Omicron tops tourism

Tourism-dependent Thailand waived the requirement for more than 60 jurisdictions last month provided travelers were fully vaccinated and had negative tests for the virus

Covid: For first time, two Omicron infections detected in Odisha

Both are foreign returnees and their health condition is stable

4 UK travellers test positive for coronavirus after arriving in Goa

The passengers had arrived here by a flight being operated under the government's Vande Bharat Mission (VBM)

Likely order of Covid symptoms depends on coronavirus variant: Study

The most likely order of symptoms that patients with COVID-19 experience is different for different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study. The researchers from the University of Southern California in the US wanted to know whether the order of COVID-19 symptoms varied in patients from different geographical regions or with various patient characteristics. Identifying order of symptom onset of infectious diseases might aid in differentiating symptomatic infections earlier in a population thereby enabling non-pharmaceutical interventions and reducing disease spread, they said. The study, published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, used modelling approach to predict symptom order in a set of 373,883 cases in the US between January and May 2020. The most likely symptom order differed between the initial outbreak in China -- where fever most often preceded cough, and nausea or vomiting was a common third symptom -- and the subsequent spread to the US. In the U

Omicron variant sweeps across nation, now 73% of US Covid-19 cases

Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the US, accounting for 73 per cent of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron's share of infections in only one week. In much of the country, it's even higher. Omicron is responsible for an estimated 90 pere cent or more of new infections in the New York area, the Southeast, the industrial Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. The national rate suggests that more than 650,000 omicron infections occurred in the U.S. last week. Since the end of June, the delta variant had been the main version causing US infections. As recently as the end of November, more than 99.5 per cent of coronaviruses were delta, according to CDC data. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the new numbers reflect the kind of growth seen in other countries. "These numbers are stark, but they're

Canadian foreign minister Melanie Joly tests positive for Covid-19

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced in a public message that she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is continuing to work from isolation