New Zealand reports first Omicron BA.4 variant

May 01, 2022

Wellington [New Zealand], May 1 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand reported its first case of Omicron BA.4 variant at the border amid 12,699 community cases during...

New Zealand reports first Omicron BA.5 variant

May 08, 2022

Wellington [New Zealand], May 8 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand reported its first case of Omicron BA.5 variant at the border amid 12,392 community cases during...

Contact tracing intensified after Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 detected, says expert

May 25, 2022

New Delhi [India], May 25 : After the detection of Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 in India, the government has intensified contact tracing said...

INSACOG finds COVID-19's Omicron sub-lineages BA.2, BA.2.38 have caused spike in cases: Sources

Jun 18, 2022

New Delhi [India], June 18 : India's COVID genome sequencing facility, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) on Friday has reviewed the genomic surveillance...

Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants of COVID-19 will not lead to surge in cases but stay vigilant, says Expert

May 24, 2022

New Delhi [India], May 24 : After India witnessed cases of the sub-variants of Omicron, Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the Indian Medical Association's...

BA.4, BA.5 are quite mild, behaving like other Omicron sub-variants: Expert

May 31, 2022

New Delhi [India], May 31 : As India has been witnessing the subvariants of Omicron, Dr Tarun Kumar Sahni, Internal medicine and hyperbaric Oxygen...