Here's the latest about what we know about the new COVID-19 variants now on the rise.What are current new COVID variants? There are two that are fairly prevalent and one — the highly mutated variant — that is not as widespread, for now. Every two weeks, the Centers for Disease Con...
OVID-19 testing has picked up a new coronavirus variant called BA.2.86-nicknamed Pirola, after an asteroid - in several countries. Whether this highly mutated variant has the potential to spread at the speed of light and would be of global concern is something researchers are trying to find ...
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday it had detected 15 cases of XBB.1.16 and two cases of XBB.1.16.1, indicating that this new COVID-19 variant has been spread to China. The variant is also known as Arcturus. "Arcturus" is actually a Latinized version ...
Dr. Adam Lauring, a University of Michigan professor who runs the lab that sequenced the case,saidFriday that they sequence cases from a large area in Michigan for the state health department and CDC. He declined to share additional details about the variant infection, which he said is now ...
Israel, which has been Pfizer’s human laboratory to test their COVID shots, ran a “war games” simulation to prepare for a “deadly new variant” which at the time had not yet been named. They called this future variant “Omega,” andthe simulation was carried out on Novembe...
BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The KP.2 sub-variant of COVID-19, which has become increasingly prevalent on a global scale, is unlikely to cause a new infection peak in China in the near future, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration said on Tuesday. ...
Caution should still be taken, especially as we enter the holiday season and interact with more people. The HV.1 variant may not be as deadly but it isstill an extreme dangerfor those at high risk. Newest COVID Variant Symptoms There are many sub-variants of the omicron virus in the Uni...
notification from the Shanghai Customs that the patient tested positive for COVID-19.By 22:00,the patient was transported by ambulance from the isolation point to the fever clinic of Jiading District Central Hospital.Due to travel history from the UK and abnormalities in nucleic acid test ...
GENEVA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The new COVID variant called B.1.640 being monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO) is not "circulating widely at the moment" and has so far been identified in less than one percent of the samples sequenced in France, WHO experts said here on Thursday...
On Dec 8, BioNTech and Pfizer claimed a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine could neutralize the new Omicron variant in a laboratory test, an early signal that booster shots could be crucial to protect against infection from the newly identified variant. They claimed that two doses ...