Hyderabad: A series of proactive measures taken up at the right time by Telangana government has gone a long way in containing the mortality and morbidity related to the Omicron driven Covid-19 third wave, senior health officials here believe. While the inherent ‘milder’ nature of the Omicron variant, when compared to the Delta variant, played […]
By Dr Saswat Kishore Mishra Covid-19 has thoroughly exposed our shambolic state of healthcare infrastructure and human capital. After the brutal onslaught of the Delta variant, India showed terrific resilience and it seemed that our economy was limping back to normalcy. But suddenly we find ourselves amid the third wave, once again plunging us into […]
Hyderabad: While the Omicron variant has been the dominant circulating virus triggering the Covid third wave, there are pockets where the Delta variant continues to remain active and could be responsible for Covid-related fatalities in Telangana, senior public health officials here believe. It is universally accepted that the Omicron variant is highly transmissible but not […]
Washington: An international team of researchers recently studied the sensitivity of Omicron to antibodies compared with the currently dominant Delta variant. The study about this variant has been published in the ‘Nature Journal’. The new COVID-19 Omicron variant is more transmissible than the Delta variant. However, its biological characteristics are still relatively unknown. In South […]
London: One of the epicentres of the Omicron variant — has seen a drop of about 40 per cent in new cases of Covid infection, suggesting that the new variant could be less severe than Delta. The seven day rolling average for new infections plummeted by 35 per cent from an all-time high of 23,000 […]
Hyderabad: The present situation of the Omicron-driven Covid pandemic is indicating that the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is not as lethal as the Delta variant, which caused the second wave and claimed lives of many, senior health officials here on Sunday said. However, they added that there was no need for people to panic. Making […]
London: Amid various studies claiming that Omicron causes only mild disease, a new study shows that there is “no evidence” that Omicron is less severe than the Delta variant of Covid-19. The new study led by the UK’s Imperial College London showed that the risk of reinfection with the Omicron variant is 5.4 times greater […]
Hyderabad: A study conducted on paediatric cases in several government hospitals in the country, including Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad, by researchers from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has indicated that the Delta variant was the leading cause of Covid-19 infections among Indian children during the second wave of the pandemic. The preprint study, available […]
Hyderabad: A mild third wave triggered by the Omicron (B1.1.529), the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported in South Africa, is likely to hit the country in January and reach a peak by first week of February before infections start dropping to manageable levels by the end of March, according to the noted SUTRA mathematical […]
