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Hyderabad: The new Covid-19 variant, XE, which is said to be more contagious, dangerous than its predecessors Omicron and Delta is detected in India. The first case of the new worrisome variant has been detected in Mumbai on Wednesday. Out of the 376 samples tested in Mumbai, one turned positive for the XE variant. This […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against a new mutant ‘XE’ variant of Omicron, that may be more transmissible than any strain of Covid-19 seen before. This new variant is a recombinant strain, meaning it is a mutant hybrid of the two previous versions of the Omicron variant, BA.1 and BA.2, […]

Hyderabad: Daily domestic air passenger traffic will exceed the pre-covid figure of 4.1 lakh passengers per day within the next one year. The passenger traffic, which fell below 2 lakh per day during the peak of the third wave of the pandemic, has currently recovered to 3.83 lakh passengers, said Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. […]

London: There is a “high chance” that a new Covid variant which is worse than Omicron will emerge in the next two years, England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty has warned. He said that there was still a “long way to go” because the virus will continue to “throw surprises”. He also insisted the virus […]

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu public health department has in a statement said that BA.2 Sub variant of Omicron was identified in 18.4 per cent of the samples sequenced in the state from January to March 2022. It is to be noted that the BA.2 sub-variant is driving the Covid-19 cases in the UK. The genomic […]

Hyderabad: Amid a global resurgence of Covid infections triggered by new variants of the coronavirus, Telangana is witnessing a sharp drop in active Covid infections and for the first time in the last two years, there have been no fatalities due to the virus over a prolonged period of time. After a solitary Covid-related fatality […]

With several parts of the world witnessing a renewed surge in Covid infections, it is time for India to be vigilant without pushing the panic button. There is a need for greater disease surveillance and genomic sequencing to identify the new variants of the coronavirus and ramping up health infrastructure to handle exigencies. Testing, tracking, […]

Hyderabad: A development that has the potential to trigger yet another Covid crisis, the Israeli Health Ministry on Thursday has reported an entirely new strain of coronavirus, a combination of BA1 and BA 2 strains of Omicron, which has never been reported elsewhere in world. Although more details on the virulence and transmissibility of the […]

Washington: While Covid-19 has been generally mild on children, the Omicron wave had a significant effect on them, with an increase in infection and hospitalisation. Now physicians at Boston Children’s Hospital, US, have found manifestation of a previously unrecognised complication of Covid-19 in young children: croup – a type of respiratory illness characterised with barking […]

Hyderabad: The rapid surge in Covid infections in China and subsequent lockdown of Shenzhen city, a major technology hub and Jilin province, apart from the spate of fatalities in Hong Kong, has raised concerns among public health officials, geneticists and epidemiologists here in Hyderabad. While there are no immediate indications of a new variant, which […]

The decision to resume international flights will bring cheer to the sector but is not enough to bail out the struggling industry

Hyderabad: There are worrying signs on the horizon, as countries in Europe and Asia are now grappling with the rise of a new sub-lineage of BA 2 Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has been unofficially christened as BA 2.2. After enduring the Omicron driven Covid wave in the months of December and January, largely […]

Hyderabad: The natural immunity gained by individuals across the country through Covid infection during the successive Delta and Omicron waves is enough to thwart or dilute any future surge, developers of the noted SUTRA mathematical model for pandemics said. By rough estimates, close to 90% of the population in the country are likely to have […]

Hyderabad: Doctors at city-based Century Hospitals enabled a 70-year-old individual to recover from Covid-19, after fighting it for 40 days. CN Murthy, a resident from Bowenpally, tested positive for Omicron on January 22. In the ensuing weeks, despite medication, Murthy continued to test Covid positive and even lost 5 kg weight, as symptoms like fever […]

Hyderabad: The much awaited ‘Numaish’ began on a positive note with around 40,000 people visiting the place since it resumed. The event which is usually held in January was suspended last month in view of rapid increase in Omicron-driven Covid cases. And the last year, the city gave a miss to the Numaish as the […]

Hyderabad: In the post-pandemic world, the popularity of remote and hybrid work has risen significantly and majority of companies are looking at providing some kind of reimbursement for their employees. As per a study by Indeed, about 58 per cent of employees say their employers reimburse remote work expenses incurred. The rest of the employees, […]

Geneva: Even as Covid cases are decreasing and several countries lifting restrictions, testing and surveillance of the virus is also on the decline, which is a major cause of concern, said a World Health Organisation official. WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said that monitoring the virus remains critical, the Washington Post reported. “We need to […]

Geneva: Amid concerns of increasing presence of the BA.2 subtype of Omicron variant in some European and Asian countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern. The WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), which met on Tuesday said […]

Hyderabad: The genetic researchers involved in genome sequencing and tracking of new SARS-CoV-2 variants have reported multiple Deltacron clusters from UK, US and Australia in the last few days. In addition to the three clusters of Delta/Omicron genomes, the researchers in United Kingdom, within a span of just two-days, have also identified one more variant […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government is giving a massive push to strengthen medical education and tertiary healthcare facilities across the State. With Telangana successfully managing to come out of the Omicron driven Covid third wave, renewed efforts are underway to fast track prestigious projects, that include multispecialty health hubs, medical colleges and upgrading almost all major […]