For now, Maharashtra is firm on not rolling back travel restrictions that it had imposed on Tuesday, including a mandatory seven-day institutional quarantine for international travelers coming from Omicron-specific “countries at risk” and mandating a negative RT-PCR test report for domestic arrivals irrespective of the vaccination status of the...
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Bengaluru: Amid fears of the spread of new Covid strain ‘Omicron’, two South African nationals have tested positive for the coronavirus, and their samples have been sent for further tests to ascertain about the variant, a top official said on Saturday. Both of them have been quarantined and there...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired an important meeting on the Covid-19 situation and vaccination status in India on Saturday morning. The meeting was attended by top officials including cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba, principal secretary to the prime minister PK Mishra, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan and NITI Aayog member...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday designated a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa with a large number of mutations as being “of concern,” the fifth variant to be given the designation. The WHO said in a statement that it had assigned the B.1.1.529 variant the Greek...
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