The Indian Council of Medical Research has designed a testing kit that can detect the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of the coronavirus in just two hours, local media reported on Sunday.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said that approval for Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin will be given on the basis of the meeting which will be convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) today.
India is likely to have its indigenous COVID-19 vaccine for children by September, according to Director of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)'s National Institute of Virology (Pune) Priya Abraham.
The second wave of COVID-19 seems to be abating as the country has been witnessing a continuous decline in fresh coronavirus cases for the past few weeks
With 70,421 new COVID infections in the last 24 hours, India maintained its declining trend of cases and reported the lowest single-day COVID rise in 74 days,
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