COVID-19 has never been zero but surveillance and testing scaled up: ICMR NIV Director

Jun 19, 2025

COVID-19 cases in India are declining after a recent peak, with the Nimbus variant from Singapore detected. ICMR-NIV reports mild symptoms from Omicron sub-variants....

India detects 11 COVID-19 Omicron sub-variants in international passengers between Dec 24-Jan 3

Jan 05, 2023

Eleven Omicron sub-variants were found during testing of international travellers and all these variants earlier reported as present in the country, the sources said. A...

Hyderabad based BioGenex develops Direct RT-PCR Kit which detects all variants of Covid-19 Double Quick

Jan 13, 2022

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], January 13 (ANI/BusinessWire India): BioGenex Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. has developed a RT-PCR kit for Covid-19 diagnosis, which detects COVID 19...

PM Modi to review Covid situation at high-level meeting today

Dec 22, 2022

In the last six months, India reported four cases of the BF.7 Omicron sub-variant, which is driving the current surge of infections in China....

COVID-19: Possibility of new variants of Omicron in Delhi

Apr 21, 2022

New Delhi [India], April 21 : With the latest spike of more than 1000 COVID-19 cases in the national capital in a single day,...

Ahead of 20th Party Congress, China detects new Omicron sub-variants in fresh COVID flareup

Oct 11, 2022

Beijing [China], October 11 : New Omicron sub-variants BF.7 and BA.5.1.7, which are highly infectious with greater transmissibility have been detected in China, in...