The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is less likely to cause long COVID than the Delta strain, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. Long COVID is defined as having new or ongo...

Students should not be afraid of failures as all discoveries stem from what did not work, said Gagandeep Kang, a professor of Christian Medical College, Vellore. Kang, who addressed the 56th convocat...

According to the data available on GISAID, a genomic database, updated till January 24, omicron is causing 100 per cent of the Covid cases in the country with the BA.2 sub-variant responsible for 97 p...

Institutions that are not saying anything on the vaccination status have decided to hold camps to fully inoculate the students at the earliest. Jadavpur University and Scottish Church College have de...

With Covid cases going down, the state health department's focus is again back on vaccination and non-Covid cases, an official said on Thursday. Bengal on Thursday completed 12 crore Covid vaccin...

The Food and Drug Administration has formally restricted the use of antibody treatments that lost their once-considerable effect when faced with the omicron variant, pausing a therapy that had been wi...

NO Not following protocol is the issue  Not following the Covid-19 protocol is the main reason. If at least a majority of the people had abided by the norms, the spread would have been less. T...

The turnout of healthcare and frontline workers and eligible senior citizens for the precautionary shot against Covid continues to be low, officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) hav...

Previous infection with the coronavirus appeared to provide stronger protection against the delta variant than did vaccination in a large sample of patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

Self-testing and no-testing are making many Covid patients in Kolkata turn critical in the third wave of the pandemic, doctors have said. This time, the majority of those testing positive for Covid a...