 | Deaths considerably reduced in third Covid wave due to vaccination: CentreEleven states and union territories have more than 50,000 active COVID-19 cases and 515 districts are reporting a weekly case positivity of over five per cent, it said. |
 | US faces wave of omicron deaths in coming weeks, models sayThe wave of deaths heading for the United States will crest in late January or early February, Shea said. In early February, weekly deaths could equal or exceed the delta peak... |
 | Conflicting Omicron data pushes government into actionCentre to review hospital infra, including status of oxygen devices |
 | Omicron milder than delta? South African doctors see signs“At the moment, virtually everything points toward it being milder disease,” Willem Hanekom, director of the Africa Health Research Institute, said. |
 | WHO has no reports yet of Covid deaths from Omicron variantThe WHO has said it will take several weeks to get a full picture of Omicron's transmissibility and disease severity and to assess how vaccines, tests and treatments hold up against the new variant. |
