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Strong retail spending likely fuelled the rebound from last year's Delta lockdowns, while confidence figures will show how the economy is coping with Omicron.

NAGPUR: With fewer detection of Omicron variant among severely ill patients, doctors have warned that the Delta variant could still be in circulation. Samples of only a few in ICUs are testing positive in Omisure RT-PCR kits, which are said to guarantee detection of all Omicron lineages in RT-PCR tests.…

Sequencing results before and after December 2, 2021 show different trends

HYDERABAD: Coronavirus’ Delta variant and its sub-lineages were responsible for vaccine breakthrough infections in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana through the second wave of Covid-19, reveals a study by a team of city researchers. Vaccine breakthrough infections were observed in people vaccinated by either Covishield or Covaxin.

The recovery movement around Parramatta after coming out of lockdown last year was swift, but ultimately short-lived. Business owners are feeling the pinch of the Omicron outbreak worse than last year's Delta wave.

During America's last surge of the coronavirus driven by the Delta variant, people who were unvaccinated but survived Covid were better protected than those who were vaccinated and not previously infected, a new study said Wednesday. The finding is the latest to weigh in on a debate on the relative…

A jobs boom after the Delta outbreak restrictions were lifted in Australia's south-east sees unemployment plunge to just 4.2 per cent, the lowest level since August 2008.

MUMBAI: Mucormycosis, the black fungal infection that worsened the impact of the second Delta wave in India, hasn’t disappeared from the Covid wards in the city.