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...

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...

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...

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...