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Melboune: England was hit by Covid-19 dramas within its support staff on Monday before its batsmen sustained another top-order collapse at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as Australia moved within sight of a series-clinching victory in the Ashes. Before play even began on Monday, Cricket Australia called for calm after a Covid-19 scare involving England’s support […]
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Hyderabad: Despite the Omicron variant scare and alertness of the health authorities, widespread adherence to Covid safety protocols in the older parts of the city seems to be missing. A visit to different areas within the erstwhile ‘Walled City’ points out how casually the citizens have been taking the directives of the administration on the […]
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Adilabad: About 16,000 students belonging to Adilabad district have benefited from the State government’s decision to pass those who failed in the Intermediate first-year exam. The move brought relief to students and parents alike who were upset with the results. Students studying Class X and Intermediate II year were promoted to higher classes following the […]
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Hyderabad: International passengers in Hyderabad from at-risk and other countries who tested positive for Omicron variant are recovering on time. While these are still early days, senior health officials who are tracking the recoveries and health condition of the Omicron positive cases in Hyderabad said so far, none of them have reported any kind of […]
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Hyderabad: Three more international passengers who had arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad, have tested positive for Omicron variant on Sunday, taking the overall number of Omicron variant positive cases in Telangana to 44 out of which 10 have already recovered. Out of three Omicron variant positive cases, two passengers had arrived at […]
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Hyderabad: Three members of the K-pop superstar group BTS have been infected with the coronavirus after returning from abroad, their management agency said. RM and Jin were diagnosed with Covid-19 on Saturday evening, the Big Hit Music agency said in a statement. It earlier said another member, Suga, tested positive for the virus on Friday. […]
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Hyderabad: India can see a surge in Covid-19 cases by the end of January 2022, a Hyderabad-based doctor warned. “We expect a surge in Covid-19 numbers by end of January because we are no different from the world. We will face what the world is facing,” Dr Sambit, Director (Medical) of Krishna Institute of Medical […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 278.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.39 million and vaccinations to over 8.88 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death […]
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Seoul: Suga of the South-Korean super K-pop band BTS has tested positive for Covid after returning from the US. The K-Pop idol received his positive test result one day after he returned to South Korea, where he was quarantined as soon as he arrived, reports aceshowbiz.com. He has not come in contact with other members […]
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Kanpur: Researchers at IIT Kanpur (IIT-K) have predicted that a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which may be triggered by the new Omicron variant, may peak in India by February 3, 2022. A report, published in the online preprint health server MedRxiv, said: “Following the trends around the world, this project report forecasts India’s […]
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Stepping up vaccination coverage and enforcing Covid-appropriate public behaviour are the only two ways to counter the spread of the new coronavirus variant Omicron, which has higher transmissibility compared with the earlier strains. Going by the rate at which the new variant has been spreading, the possibility of a third wave hitting India cannot be […]
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Johannesburg: The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 appears to be having a less severe impact than the earlier variants, a study in South Africa has found. The Omicron variant was first identified by South African scientists last month and it has sparked extensive research into its impact. “In South Africa, Omicron is behaving in a […]
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Hyderabad: Home based isolation to recover from Omicron variant driven Covid-19 infections could play a vital role in the next few months in Telangana. With studies indicating that Omicron is highly transmissible and at the same time possibly less severe than the Delta variant, the State healthcare machinery is gearing up to the possibility of […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana reported 182 new Covid infections and one fatality on Wednesday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 4,017 and the total number of positive cases so far to 6,80,074. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Wednesday, was 3,610. The authorities on Wednesday conducted 37,353 Covid tests of which results of […]
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Out of the 14 Omicron positive cases, 12 passengers had arrived here from non at-risk countries while the remaining two were from at-risk countries.
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The city had reported 204 cases on Monday and 327 on Tuesday.
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A yet-to-be peer reviewed study led by a team of researchers from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Kanpur used a statistical methodology based on the fitting of a mixture of Gaussian distributions
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Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday confirmed the second case of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the state. The Omicron positive patient is a 39-year-old international traveller from Kenya. While speaking with ANI, Dr Hymavati, the Director of Andhra Pradesh’s Public Health Department, said, “A 39 years old foreign traveller came from Kenya to […]
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New Delhi: Asserting that the Omicron variant is at least thrice more transmissible than Delta, the Centre Tuesday asked states and union territories to “activate” war rooms, keep analyzing even small trends and surges and keep taking strict and prompt containment action at district and local levels. In a letter to the states and union […]
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Jeddah: Covid-19 cases in Gulf region continue to soar amid fears that the highly contagious Omicron variant may lead to many nations gradually introducing precautionary measures that include curtailing public movement and travel. The ongoing Dubai Expo has temporarily suspended some activities that require close or direct contact as a precaution against latest Covid developments […]
