Coronavirus Cases

Shanghai warns against 'panic' as COVID-19 cases mount in China

Shanghai authorities have called for calm as worried citizens swamped online grocery platforms to stock up on food over fears of impending lockdowns

Is omicron leading us closer to herd immunity against COVID?

Herd immunity is when enough of a population is immune to a virus that it's hard for the germ to spread to those who aren't protected by vaccination or a prior infection

Those unvaccinated can have a severe form of COVID-19 after Omicron infection, says WHO expert amid rising cases

Maria van Kerkhove, the health agency's technical lead on coronavirus, said that the surge of infections across the world is putting a significant burden on health care systems which are already severely overburdened

Scientists develop new COVID diagnosis test using X-rays: Will it replace RT-PCR testing?

Experts who have designed this new method — using X-ray technology with Artificial Intelligence — say it is 98 per cent accurate and quicker than the conventional tests

India reports 2.68 lakh cases, positivity rate rises to 16.6%; Omicron tally now at 6,041

With 402 more deaths, the number of people who have succumbed to the viral disease has risen to 4,85,752. The case fatality rate was 1.32 per cent.

Three Delhi jails turn into COVID-19 hotspots; 46 inmates and 43 staffers test positive for the virus

The total number of prisoners in all the three jails of Delhi Prisons as of 7 January was 18,528. Tihar has a maximum of 12,669 inmates, Mandoli 4,018 and Rohini 1,841

Centre revises guidelines for mild, asymptomatic COVID-19 patients, reduces home isolation period to 7 from 10 days

The change in the rules issued by the Centre comes at a time when the country recorded 58,097 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in around 199 days

COVID-19 case counts may be losing importance amid Omicron variant threat

Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said that for each new infection detected, the US is missing two cases.

Actor John Abraham and wife Priya Runchal test positive for COVID-19

John Abraham and his wife Priya Runchal tested positive for coronavirus on Monday

From 350 to 961: India’s Omicron tally rises by over 600 cases in just six days

The country is seeing a substantial rise in coronavirus infections owing to the new COVID-19 variant; it recorded 13,154 new cases in 24 hours, as opposed to 6,358 a day before