Covid positivity rate stands at 11.31% amid ‘not mild’ Omicron outbreak
WHO officials said Omicron appears to produce less severe disease than Delta, but should not be categorised as 'mild'
Omicron 'sub-variant' throws up new virus questions
PARIS: Scientists are keeping a close watch on a recently-discovered sub-variant of the Omicron version of the...
Omicron risk remains 'very high': WHO
GENEVA: The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still "very high", the World Health Organization said Wednesday,...
Russia's coronavirus death toll tops 600,000
MOSCOW:Russia's coronavirus death toll passed the 600,000 mark on Thursday, Reuters calculations based on official...
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 5 million as Delta variant sweeps the world
By Kavya B and Roshan Abraham
Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a...
World Bank says Delta variant slowing economic growth in East Asia and Pacific
By Kanishka Singh
The East Asia and Pacific region's recovery has been undermined by the spread of the COVID-19...
European stocks slide as Delta fears offsets growth hopes
Bitcoin recovered, sitting at around $46,000 after seeing wild fluctuations on Tuesday as...
'Living with COVID' looks very different for front-line health workers, who are already exhausted
With the Delta variant raging across New South Wales and Victoria, health services are stretched and strained. ...
New Zealand reports first death from Delta variant of Covid
New Zealand reported on Saturday the first death from the Delta variant of the new coronavirus and 20 further daily...
U.S. economy's hot vax summer ends in cool COVID fall as Delta rises
By Howard Schneider and Trevor Hunnicutt
WASHINGTON: The promise of a "normal" U.S. economy this summer, which...
US consumer confidence drops sharply in August on Delta fears
The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell more than 10 points to 113.8, the...
عام کورونا کے "ڈیلٹا" میں تبدیل ہونے کی کیا علامات ہیں؟ جانئے
ورلڈ ہیلتھ آرگنائزیشن( ڈبلیو ایچ او) نے کورونا وائرس کی اقسام کو...
New Zealand thrown into lockdown over single suspected Delta case
Wellington: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put New Zealand under strict lockdown on Tuesday after the country's first...
'ملک میں ویکسینیشن کا عمل بھرپور انداز میں جاری ہے'
وزیراعظم کے معاون خصوصی برائے صحت ڈاکٹر فیصل سلطان کہتے ہیں...
War has changed, CDC says, calling for new response to Delta variant
The war against COVID-19 has changed because of the highly contagious Delta variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease...
سندھ میں لاک ڈاؤن کے حوالے سے نیا تصحیح شدہ نوٹی فکیشن جاری
محکمہ داخلہ سندھ نے لاک ڈاؤن کے حوالے سے نیا تصحیح شدہ نوٹی ...
NCOC expresses concerns over growing number of Covid-19 cases in Karachi
Asad Umar extended full support to Sindh government on behalf of the Centre in dealing with the...
کراچی کے سرکاری اور نجی اسپتال کورونا مریضوں سے بھرنے لگے
ملک میں کورونا وائرس کا پھیلاؤ خطرناک حد تک تیز ہوگیا ہے۔ کراچی...
Karachi hospitals reaching capacity as Delta variant takes hold
The Sindh provincial government said on Monday that the COVID-19 situation in the city is becoming serious, and...
لاہور: 56 مریضوں میں ڈیلٹا وائرس کی تصدیق
لاہور میں کورونا وائرس کی ڈیلٹا قسم تیزی سے پھیلنے لگی، شہر میں ...
Pakistan's Covid cases rising fast as positivity rate crosses 6%
New figures released by NCOC on Friday show how fast Covid is spreading in Pakistan with the positivity rate rising...
Sindh reports another 35 cases of Delta variant
According to the sources 12 samples were observed as delta variant positive in the District East, while...
NCOC announces ban on air travel for unvaccinated people from August 1
The NCOC in its statement said that Delta variant cases have emerged in Pakistan and there is a...
Variants like Delta ‘winning race against vaccines’, says WHO chief
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that passing the four millionth recorded...
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
By Karishma Singh
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:
Sydney locked down for third week...
What's the 'Delta plus' variant? And can it escape vaccines? An expert explains
Last month, the Indian government detected a new mutation in the Delta coronavirus variant, prompting it to classify...
Germany weighs new travel rules amid rise of Delta variant
If the Delta variant becomes dominant in Germany, so-called coronavirus variant countries such as...
Vaccines, 'Delta strain' bring new pandemic challenge
By Peter Apps
In the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, engineers are building a 5,000-person quarantine facility,...
Moscow begins booster vaccine campaign as Russia's COVID-19 cases surge
Health clinics in Moscow will begin offering booster vaccine shots against COVID-19 on Thursday, the city's mayor...
Bangladesh to deploy army in lockdown to curb COVID-19 surge
By Ruma Paul
Bangladesh is deploying army troops from Thursday to enforce a strict lockdown amid a record spike in...
