Indian Council of Medical Research

India reported 1,59,632 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

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.

The Centre on Thursday informed that two people have tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Karnataka.

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

India logs 62,480 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hrs, active infections drop below 8-lakh mark

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,

India's reported COVID cases have continued to show a downward trend and remained below one lakh mark for the fourth consecutive day

With 86,498 new cases reported in the last 24 hours; the daily COVID cases are the lowest in 66 days in India