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Covid-19: Morocco halts all incoming air travel from around the world

Morocco has been in the forefront of vaccinations in Africa, and kept its borders closed for months in 2020 because of the pandemic

Follow Covid-appropriate behaviour to avoid lockdown: Maharashtra CM

"Citizens need to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour to prevent another lockdown in the state," he said

Maharashtra sees 832 Covid-19 cases, 33 deaths; active tally now 8,193

The discharge of 841 people during the day increased the recovery count to 64,81,640

Step up health infra, testing: Centre to states amid Omicron threat

Variant found first in South Africa has multiple mutations, has been detected in Hong Kong, UK, Israel and Botswana. It is yet to be detected in India

Travel curbs tighten across the world as nations prep to tackle new variant

Cases involving the omicron variant have already been confirmed on multiple continents

Active Covid-19 cases in India decline to 105,691, lowest in 543 days: Govt

India saw a single-day rise of 8,774 new coronavirus infections, taking the country's total tally to 3,45,72,523, while the active cases have declined to 1,05,691, the lowest in 543 days

Covid-19: Delhi records one death, 27 new cases; positivity rate 0.05%

Delhi recorded one coronavirus-related death and 27 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 0.05 per cent on Saturday, according to data shared by the city health department. The number of cumulative cases stood at 14,40,834. Over 14.15 lakh patients have recovered from the infection. The death toll from the pandemic has now risen to 25,096 in Delhi. This is the fifth fatality due to coronavirus infection reported this month. Earlier, two deaths were recorded on November 12 and one each on November 14 and 15. The city reported four COVID-19 deaths in October and five in September. The case positivity rate stood at 0.05 per cent on Saturday, according to the latest health bulletin. On Friday, 23 cases were recorded with a positivity rate of 0.04 per cent On Thursday, 30 cases were recorded with a positivity rate of 0.05 per cent. A total of 59,651 tests -- 49,102 RT-PCR tests and 10,549 rapid antigen tests -- were conducted a day ago, the latest bulletin said. Meanwhile, Delhi Chi

'Maximise defences': World on alert as Covid strain found in more countries

Despite the banning of flights from southern African countries, there are mounting concerns that the variant has already been widely seeded around the world.

A strategy for new Covid variant: keep calm and carry on vaccinating

The longer it takes to vaccinate whole populations, the faster we'll cycle through the Greek alphabet with new variants;

99 more test positive at Dharwad medical college in Karnataka; tally at 281

As many as 99 more medical college students and faculty members were tested Covid-19 positive in Karnataka's Dharwad, taking the total number of affected medical students to 281

LIVE: Two SA returnees test Covid positive in Bengaluru; Omicron reaches UK

Two linked cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in Britain connected to travel to southern Africa, health minister Sajid Javid said on Saturday

Omicron threat: Maharashtra to screen passengers from 10 countries

The new Omicron variant has already resulted in a global scare

Hunt for Covid variants: How the new one was found and what we know so far

B.1.1.529 has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants. It does not seem to be a 'daughter of delta' or 'grandson of beta' but rather represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2

Coronavirus: How worried should we be about the Omicron variant?

Omicron's mutations are likely to render certain COVID-19 treatments - including some manufactured antibodies - ineffective

Omicron variant: WHO asks Southeast Asian countries to step up surveillance

The global health body said festivities and celebrations must include all precautionary measures and crowds and large gatherings must be avoided

Dutch find 61 Covid cases among S.Africa passengers, looking for new strain

The cases were discovered among around 600 passengers who arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on two flights on Friday

Covid: Passengers arriving in Mumbai from South Africa to be quarantined

Genome sequencing of Covid19 positive passengers planned

Measuring viral RNA may help predict which Covid patients will die

The amount of a SARS-CoV-2 genetic material -- viral RNA -- in the blood is a reliable indicator in detecting which patients will die of the infectious disease

DATA STORY: India logs 8,318 cases; global active tally crosses 20 mn-mark

India has so far administered 1,210,658,262 vaccine doses. That is 3502.68 per cent of its total caseload, and 86.54 per cent of its population

DATA STORY: India logs 9,283 cases in 24 hours; 69,165 added in 7 days

India has so far administered 1,184,423,573 vaccine doses. That is 3429.55 per cent of its total caseload, and 84.67 per cent of its population