The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
Watch the latest from ITV News - A new variant of Covid - called Eris - has rapidly spread across the UK. But how serious are the symptoms and should we be concerned?
This year in Australia, the XBB COVID strains have dominated, and acquired a couple of key mutations. When COVID mutates into new variants, it doesn't affect the ability of either Paxlovid or Lagevrio to work because the parts of the virus that change from the mutations aren't those ta...
[04:05.76]and that the spread is also being driven [04:09.28]by the UK and South African variants. [04:13.20]Carlo Federico Perno is with Rome's Bambino Gesù Hospital. [04:20.60]He said it is very unlikely that...
After genome sequencing of over 10,000 COVID-19 cases in India, researchers have discovered a new variant with two new mutations which may be better at evading the immune system.
Since many are using home tests that are not reported through public health or are not testing at all, the official case counts underestimate the actual prevalence of COVID-19. What COVID-19 variant are we on? Currently, thedominant variant nationwide is XEC, with 37% of cases, followed ...
If you’ve paid attention to any news alerts lately, you’ve probably seen the rising concerns over a new COVID-19 XBB. 1.5 variant.
What we know about the COVID variant found in the US A man in Colorado has the first known case of a COVID-19 variant that appears to be more easily passed between people than the original version.o BERKELEY, Calif. - Health officials in California say the state lab and other labs ...
Who is eligible for treatment? Not everybody needs to be treated if they test positive for COVID-19. Dr. Sarah Hochman, a hospital epidemiologist and infectious diseases physician at NYU Langone Health, said treatment is recommended for those who are at higher risk of severe illness inc...
COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health officials are so far not raising concern about this variant, unlike some previous, more highly ...