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...

The number of Covid deaths has risen in the last fortnight but doctors and public health experts said most of the patients died because of other ailments and not any critical condition resulting from ...

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Students are testing positive for Covid and not being able to write the end semester examinations of various universities over digital platforms, said officials of the institutions. Symptoms like hig...

The Delta variant was found in the rest — 22.8 per cent — of the samples, according to the state health department. Genome sequencing is done to ascertain what variant of virus had  i...

Bharat Biotech on Wednesday said a study has demonstrated that a booster dose of Covaxin has a neutralising effect on the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19. The study conducted at Emory Universi...