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    Vulnerable groups given vaccine boosters, India’s COVID-19 cases multiply

    India started administering booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine to frontline people and vulnerable old people on Monday. With the fast-spreading Omicron variation fuelling an nearly eight-fold upward thrust in every…

    Children at higher Omicron risk as re-infection rate 3 times Delta strain

    World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Monday said that compared to the delta variant of Covid-19, reinfections in the Omicron variant – 90 days after the…

    Covid-19: ‘Delta’ can infect even fully vaccinated, says study

    New Delhi: A new study shows that fully vaccinated people can contract and pass on Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in household settings, but at lower…

    In India, AY 4.2 is a ‘variant of interest’.

    An alert has been sounded across Kerala after AY 4.2, a sub-lineage of the Covid Delta variant, was detected in various parts of the country. The new variant has been…