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India detected its first Omicron case on December 2 in Karnataka and till now, the country has logged more than a hundred cases of this virus. 

Hyderabad: Precautionary measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus are underway in the city. While the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is strengthening 30 isolation centres located in different parts of the city, officials of the Department of Health, Medical & Family Welfare continued with their fever survey in Tolichowki for the third consecutive […]

Hyderabad: Twelve international passengers from at-risk and non-at-risk countries who arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here tested positive for the Omicron variant, Director of Public Health Dr G Srinivasa Rao said on Saturday. With this, the total number of international passengers who arrived at RGIA and tested positive for the Omicron variant has […]

London: The UK government is reportedly drawing up plans for a short two-week circuit breaker lockdown later this month, after Christmas, to try and keep pace with the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, media reports said on Saturday. According to The Times, draft regulations are being prepared, which would ban different households meeting indoors except for […]

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 […]

New Delhi: With seven countries in the South-East Asia Region confirming cases of new COVID-19 variant Omicron, the World Health Organization on Saturday stressed on urgent scale-up of public health and social measures to curtail its further spread. Countries can and must prevent the spread of Omicron with proven health and social measures, Regional Director, […]

Geneva: Closing of schools across the world should be the last resort in the fight against the fast-spreading Omicron Covid-19 variant, outgoing Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. “Nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever possible,” Xinhua news agency quoted Fore as saying in a statement on Friday. “When Covid-19 community transmission increases and stringent […]

Hyderabad: While it is too early to predict the behaviour of the Omicron variant, medical condition of a few early Omicron positive patients in Hyderabad has indicated that the new variant-driven Covid infections could be less severe and need not require hospitalisation and critical care. Senior health officials here on Friday said they have some […]

Warangal: With the detection of the first case of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus in Hanamkonda, the officials of the Health and Medical Department and Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) are on the alert to check the spread of new variant. Speaking to ‘Telangana Today’, District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) Dr K […]

Hyderabad: With increased cases of Omicron being reported across the world, the committees of various mosques in the city are back to enforcing the Covid 19 safety protocols during the prayers. At most of the mosques in the city, during the prayers, the ‘Imam’ (one who leads the prayers) is asking the people to adhere […]

Hyderabad: The health authorities on Friday said that massive efforts were underway to identify close contacts of all the international travellers who have tested positive for Covid-19. The surveillance teams in Hyderabad and Hanumakonda, Warangal have launched a concerted effort in collaboration with other line departments to identify all the individuals who came in close […]

New Delhi: As many as 101 positive cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected across 11 States and union territories so far, the government said on Friday and advised people to keep new year celebrations at low intensity. It said that though daily Covid-19 cases are below 10,000 for the past […]

Warangal: The first case of Omicron variant of the Coronavirus was reported in Hanamkonda, Warangal on Friday. A 40-year-old woman, who returned from the UK on December 2, has tested positive for the new variant, said District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) Dr K Lalitha Devi. “She has been shifted to Telangana Institute of Medical […]

New Delhi: Drug firm AstraZeneca on Friday said that a preclinical study has concluded that its antibody combination Evusheld for the prevention of coronavirus infection has been found to have retained neutralising activity against the Omicron variant. The study was done independently by investigators at the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), Center for Biologics […]

New Delhi: The national capital on Thursday reported 10 new cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, pushing the total tally to 20, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. “Ten new cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Delhi, taking the total number of cases to 20. However, 10 of them have been discharged […]

Hyderabad: Two more international passengers who arrived at RGIA Hyderabad from at-risk and non at-risk countries on Tuesday have tested positive for omicron variant.  With this, the total number of international travellers who arrived at RGIA Hyderabad and tested positive for omicron has reached 9 out of which one 7 year old child along with […]

Kolkata: The seven-year-old boy, who was detected to have coronavirus’ Omicron variant, and all other family contacts in West Bengal’s Malda, were found negative on Thursday. The boy, who arrived in Hyderabad from Abu Dhabi, one of the non-high-risk countries, on December 11, had tested positive in Hyderabad and then on the same day, came […]

Hyderabad: Four international passengers who had arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad on Thursday, have tested positive for Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, Director of Public Health (DPH), Dr G Srinivasa Rao on Thursday said. “We received four imported Omicron positive cases on Thursday. Out of the four travellers, three are from Kenya and […]

Hyderabad: The health authorities on Thursday sounded an alert in a residential area in Hyderabad where two cases of Omicron were detected among foreigners. Teams of health workers along with the employees of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) were conducting door to door surveys in Paramount Colony in the Toli Chowki area. All the foreign […]

Kuala Lumpur: Large scale New Year celebrations in Malaysia have been banned over concerns that the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 could spread in the country, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. The decision was made following the confirmation of a second Omicron case in the country and at least 18 more suspected cases, Health […]