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Tamil Nadu has no Omicron B7 variant: State health department Tamil Nadu's health department has said that the state has maximum XBB variants of Omicron and till now no variant of BF 7, which is causing the new wave of Covid-19 in many countries, has been detected in the state. While speaking to media persons, P. Sampath, Joint Director, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, said, "The state has more XBB variants as more than 75 per cent of the samples tested in the state have these variants detected. However till now no BF. ...
Tamil Nadu has no Omicron B7 variant: State health department
Tamil Nadu has no Omicron B7 variant: State health department
Source: IANS
25/12/2022 4:10:25 PM
Oil prices rise as cap set Russian crude Oil prices rose on Monday following an agreement by the G7 group of nations and its allies to cap the price of Russian oil at $60 a barrel, BBC reported. Brent crude added around 1 per cent to above $86 in Asia trading. The move - which could come into force on Monday - raises Western pressure on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. It comes after oil producers' group Opec+ agreed to stick to its policy to reduce production, amid slower global growth and higher interest rates, B...
Oil prices rise as cap set Russian crude
Oil prices rise as cap set Russian crude
Source: IANS
5/12/2022 12:27:19 PM
India's economy probably grew at its fastest pace in a year in June quarter India's economy probably achieved its fastest annual expansion in a year in the April-June quarter, economists said, expecting the pace to sharply slow this quarter and in the next two as higher interest rates hit economic activity. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the three months to June 30 was probably 15.2% higher than a year earlier, a Reuters poll showed this week. January-March GDP was up 4.1% on a year before. The last time India's GDP achieved higher annual growth was in...
India's economy probably grew at its fastest pace in a year in June quarter
India's economy probably grew at its fastest pace in a year in June quarter
Source: Reuters
31/08/2022 9:29:48 AM
Australia`s unemployment rate falls despite 41,000 job losses in July Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday showed the unemployment rate fell to 3.4 per cent last month as employment and hours worked both decreased at the same time. Bjorn Jarvis, head of labour statistics at the ABS, said the unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points between June and July to 3.4 per cent, with employment falling by 41,000 people and the number of unemployed people also decreasing by 20,000 during the same period, reports Xinhua news age...
Australia`s unemployment rate falls despite 41,000 job losses in July
Australia`s unemployment rate falls despite 41,000 job losses in July
Source: IANS
18/08/2022 2:11:50 PM
Current booster shots effective against vaccine evading Omicron: Study Although Omicron sub-variants have evolved to evade antibody responses from the primary Covid vaccine series, a new laboratory study suggests existing booster doses may elicit sufficient immune protection against severe Covid-19 disease from the highly transmissible strain. Omicron has greatly diverged from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain. It consists of several sublineages, including BA.5, which is predicted to soon dominate globally by replacing other variants. The protective immunity ge...
Current booster shots effective against vaccine evading Omicron: Study
Current booster shots effective against vaccine evading Omicron: Study
Source: IANS
21/07/2022 11:31:29 AM
Omicron sub-variant BA.2.75 not dangerous as `hyped`: Experts The latest Omicron sub-variant BA.2.75, first detected in India in June, is not dangerous as "hyped" as it is not surging cases or death rates, according to global health experts. Data from Nextstrain, an open-source platform, showed that BA.2.75 has been detected from about 10 states in India and about 14 other countries including Japan, Germany, the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The sub-variant was dubbed to be dangerous, and was nicknamed as 'Centaurus...
Omicron sub-variant BA.2.75 not dangerous as `hyped`: Experts
Omicron sub-variant BA.2.75 not dangerous as `hyped`: Experts
Source: IANS
20/07/2022 2:10:14 PM
BA.5 sub-variant can re-infect you with Covid `within weeks`: Experts The BA.5 Omicron sub-variant, which is known to evade immunity induced both by vaccines as well as prior infection, has the potential to reinfect you with Covid again "within weeks", global researchers have said. BA.5, together with BA.4 and other sub-variants, are said to be behind the current surge in infections seen in a slew of countries including India, China, US, and European nations, notably the UK and Italy. It has been a common assumption during the pandemic that bein...
BA.5 sub-variant can re-infect you with Covid `within weeks`: Experts
BA.5 sub-variant can re-infect you with Covid `within weeks`: Experts
Source: IANS
12/07/2022 2:53:04 PM
New Omicron sub-variants better at evading vax, antibody treatments The latest Omicron sub-variants -- including the BA.4 and BA.5 forms causing new global surges in infections -- are even better at eluding vaccines and most antibody treatments than previous variants, finds a study. Subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 are rapidly expanding worldwide, with BA.4/5 now making up more than 50 per cent of new Covid cases in the US. These sub-variants are thought to be even more transmissible than prior Omicron sub-variants, owing to several new mutations in s...
New Omicron sub-variants better at evading vax, antibody treatments
New Omicron sub-variants better at evading vax, antibody treatments
Source: IANS
6/07/2022 4:06:30 PM
Omicron-targeting Covid vax shows high immune response: Pfizer & BioNTech The new Covid shot that specifically targets Omicron variant elicits a strong immune response against the strain, widely known to evade vaccines, Pfizer and BioNTech have said. According to the companies, just a month after administration, a booster dose of the Omicron-adapted monovalent candidates (at 30 and 60 microgram doses) increased neutralising antibodies against Omicron BA.1 to 13.5 and 19.6-fold above pre-booster dose levels. A booster dose of the Omicron-adapted bivalent candi...
Omicron-targeting Covid vax shows high immune response: Pfizer & BioNTech
Omicron-targeting Covid vax shows high immune response: Pfizer & BioNTech
Source: IANS
26/06/2022 3:32:29 PM
Omicron sub-variants behind rising Covid cases in India: Doctors With India reporting a sudden rise in the number Covid-19 cases for a second day in a row, doctors said on Thursday that Omicron sub-variants are behind the spike in Covid caseload. The Union Health Ministry said on Thursday that India registered 7,240 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, up from 5,233 infections logged the previous day. Maharashtra reported 2,701 fresh cases, its highest infection count since January 25, while Kerala reported 2,271 new cases in the last 24 hours. Th...
Omicron sub-variants behind rising Covid cases in India: Doctors
Omicron sub-variants behind rising Covid cases in India: Doctors
Source: IANS
10/06/2022 3:00:45 PM
Omicron BA.4, BA.5 sub-variants found in over a dozen countries: WHO Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have been detected in more than a dozen countries driving Covid outbreaks across the world, according to the World Health Organization. According to WHO's technical lead on Covid Maria Van Kerkhove, at least 16 countries have reported about 700 cases of BA.4, while more than 300 cases of BA.5 have been found across at least 17 countries, CNBC reported. The new sub-variants do not cause severe infection than the original Omicron strain, but they appe...
Omicron BA.4, BA.5 sub-variants found in over a dozen countries: WHO
Omicron BA.4, BA.5 sub-variants found in over a dozen countries: WHO
Source: IANS
12/05/2022 1:31:44 PM
Economic downturn has been short for hospitality sector during Omicron: Anarock Unlike the other Covid waves, the economic downturn for the hospitality sector has been short during the third-wave given the fact that travel demand has been returning at a significantly faster rate, property consultant Anarock said. That said, the reintroduction of travel restrictions due to the Omicron variant across states threw the Indian hospitality sector into an upheaval. "Except for critical and urgent travel, other leisure and business travel, plans were put on hold in Ja...
Economic downturn has been short for hospitality sector during Omicron: Anarock
Economic downturn has been short for hospitality sector during Omicron: Anarock
Source: IANS
1/03/2022 5:23:42 PM
Amid Omicron, plans for Valentine's Day are still on the table They say love is in the air, but Covid has made it hard for couples. As if Many cities have already imposed restrictions and partial lockdowns. How will this affect Valentines day plans ? QuackQuack surveyed its users to understand how the rising cases of the new variant have once again affected their plans for this big day. Among the participants, 64 per cent of the users live in the same city as their partners, while 36 per cent are in a long-distance relationship. Ravi Mittal, Founde...
Amid Omicron, plans for Valentine's Day are still on the table
Amid Omicron, plans for Valentine's Day are still on the table
Source: IANS
10/02/2022 3:43:27 PM
Omicron poses limited downside to Indian economy, say economists - Reuters Poll BENGALURU - There is scant downside risk to the Indian economy in the last months of this financial year from the Omicron coronavirus variant, according to economists polled by Reuters who said New Delhi should focus on fiscal prudence in its February budget. Asia's third-largest economy is in the midst of a resurgence in coronavirus cases driven by the new variant that has forced most states to impose localised restrictions. The Jan. 11-18 poll of over 45 economists forecast 5...
Omicron poses limited downside to Indian economy, say economists - Reuters Poll
Omicron poses limited downside to Indian economy, say economists - Reuters Poll
Source: Reuters
19/01/2022 11:06:22 AM
Analysis-With Omicron, global economy spots chance to push past COVID Governments worldwide are easing quarantine rules, reviewing coronavirus curbs and dialling back pandemic-era emergency support as they bid to launch their economies back into some version of normality. The moves, motivated by the lower severity of the Omicron variant and the need to keep workers in work and the global recovery on track, have generated a whiff of optimism that has lifted oil and stock prices. Health experts say the variant's rapid spread may yet herald a turning poi...
Analysis-With Omicron, global economy spots chance to push past COVID
Analysis-With Omicron, global economy spots chance to push past COVID
Source: Reuters
18/01/2022 5:22:28 PM
Omicron rapidly replacing Delta in almost all countries: WHO The Omcircon variant of Covid is driving a huge spike in Covid infections across countries but the death rate is stable, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said. Last week, more than 15 million new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO from around the world - by far the most cases reported in a single week. While these are official estimates, the actual numbers could be really high. "This huge spike in infections is being driven by the ...
Omicron rapidly replacing Delta in almost all countries: WHO
Omicron rapidly replacing Delta in almost all countries: WHO
Source: IANS
13/01/2022 2:24:54 PM
After 2 weeks of rise, Maharashtra's Covid cases now drop by 10K After nearly two weeks of rising, Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra suddenly plummeted by 10,000, and Omicron cases also dropped below 50, on the day when the state implemented night curfew, health officials said here on Monday. After a stupendous 44,388 Covid infectees on Sunday, the state recorded 33,470 and fatalities also dropped from 12 to 8 on Monday, with the mortality rate falling from 2.04 per cent to 2.03 per cent. From a height of 207 Omicron cases on Sunday, the state infections...
After 2 weeks of rise, Maharashtra's Covid cases now drop by 10K
After 2 weeks of rise, Maharashtra's Covid cases now drop by 10K
Source: IANS
11/01/2022 10:12:37 AM
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reviews PSBs’ readiness to tackle disruptions due to Omicron variant Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has reviewed public sector banks (PSBs) readiness to tackle any possible disruptions due to the Omicron variant and asked lenders to support sectors, besides farm, retail and MSMEs, that face interruption due to COVID. She also reviewed various steps taken by PSBs in implementing pandemic-related measures initiated by the government and RBI. While appreciating the success of Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), the Finance Minister said &lsquo...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reviews PSBs’ readiness to tackle disruptions due to Omicron variant
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reviews PSBs’ readiness to tackle disruptions due to Omicron variant
Source: Accord Fintech
10/01/2022 11:55:44 AM
Omicron variant spread to impact Q4 GDP by 0.40%, shave off 0.10% from FY22 growth: India Ratings Amid a massive surge in COVID infections across the country, especially in the metro, a domestic rating agency -- India Ratings and Research in its latest report has said that the Omicron variant spread will impact the January-March quarter (Q4) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 0.40 per cent and shave off 0.10 per cent from the FY22 growth, as many states resort to restrictions to limit infections. It added that curbs in various forms such as reducing the capacity of market/market complexes an...
Omicron variant spread to impact Q4 GDP by 0.40%, shave off 0.10% from FY22 growth: India Ratings
Omicron variant spread to impact Q4 GDP by 0.40%, shave off 0.10% from FY22 growth: India Ratings
Source: Accord Fintech
7/01/2022 9:36:29 AM
Gold edges higher as WHO categorises Omicron as not 'mild' - Media Gold inched up on Friday, hovering close to a two-week low hit in the previous session, after the chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the Omicron variant cannot be considered 'mild', while stronger yields capped bullion's gains. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold XAU= was up 0.2% to $1,791.73 per ounce by 0100 GMT. U.S. gold futures GCv1 was up 0.1% to $1,791.70. * The precious metal was all set for its worst weekly fall since late November, down about 2%. * The mo...
Gold edges higher as WHO categorises Omicron as not 'mild' - Media
Gold edges higher as WHO categorises Omicron as not 'mild' - Media
Source: Reuters
7/01/2022 9:15:46 AM
WHO warns of The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that the more transmissible Omicron together with the currently circulating Delta variants might lead to "a tsunami of cases," putting immense pressure on national health systems. Recapping WHO's response since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said at a press briefing that he's "highly concerned that Omicron being more transmissible, circulating at the sa...
WHO warns of
WHO warns of "tsunami of cases" from Omicron, Delta
Source: IANS
30/12/2021 12:23:55 PM