NEW DELHI: Indian health authorities have appealed to the public and local authorities to resume wearing face masks and increase surveillance after a new, highly transmissible strain of the coronavirus was detected in the country. At least four of the 145 coronavirus infections registered in the past 24 hours were the BF.7 subvariant of the omicron strain that is responsible
NEW DELHI: A weekend curfew began in India’s capital New Delhi and several other regions on Saturday as the country is bracing for a third wave of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases amid a rapid surge in new infections fueled by the omicron variant. Indian health authorities recorded nearly 142,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, a tenfold increase from last week, bringing
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NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed local authorities on Saturday to increase their COVID-19 preparedness and review the country’s reopening for foreign arrivals, amid global concerns over the emergence of a new coronavirus strain. The emergence of the omicron variant comes as India has managed to control the outbreak after facing a deadly COVID-19 wave
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