Covid variant Omicron

Los Angeles: The BA.5 Omicron subvariant, now the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, made up nearly 80 per cent of new Covid-19 infections in the country, according to latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

New York: Without vaccination, an infection with Omicron fails to confer robust immunity against other Covid-19 variants, finds a study. In experiments using mice and blood samples from donors who were infected with Omicron, researchers…

Wellington: New Zealand reported its first case of Omicron BA.5 variant at the border, said the Ministry of Health in a statement on Sunday. A person who has travelled from South Africa to New Zealand has been confirmed as having the…

New York: Because of their small and relatively collapsible airways, young children with Omicron are more vulnerable to upper airway infection such as croup, which if severe can lead to cardiac arrest, finds a study. Croup is a type of…

The XE variant is a recombinant of BA.1 and BA.2, the sub-lineages of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19. In addition to those, it has three other mutations which were not there in Omicron or BA.1 or BA.2. According to reports,…

Bhubaneswar:  Omicron, the highly-transmissible variant of SARS-COV-2, has replaced the Delta variant in Odisha. This was revealed from the latest genome sequencing report of the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar. As per the…

London: The Omicron variant of Covid is highly contagious but is known to cause less severe disease than Delta. This is after being better at escaping immune protection by vaccinations and previous infections. However, the reasons for this…

Geneva: The Omicron variant of Covid-19 has been identified in 171 countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. In its latest technical brief, the global health body said that Omicron is soon set to replace Delta globally as a…

New Delhi: India registered 377 new cases of highly transmissible Covid variant Omicron in the past 24 hours, pushing the national tally to 3007, Union health ministry said on Friday morning. Of the total, 1,199 people have recovered…

Bhubaneswar: As the Covid cases are rising in Odisha, health services director Bijay Mohapatra on Wednesday informed that efforts are being made to break the Covid transmission chain in the state. The transmission of the infection are…