NEW DELHI: In the wake of rising Covid-19 cases in several countries, including China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, health minister Mansukh Mandaviya has called for a high level of alertness along with aggressive genome sequencing and intensive surveillance, an official source told TOI. The directions were given during a review meeting chaired by…Continue Reading

WHO sounds alarm about Omicron as COVID-19 infections of past 10 weeks exceed those in all of 2020

The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that 90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the Omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago — amounting to more cases than in all of 2020.A nurses checks on a patient in the intensive care unit of Humber River Hospital, in Toronto, on Jan. 25.…Continue Reading