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...
You may have seen headlines recently about the omicron variant of COVID-19, or read about it on social media. There's still a great deal of uncertainty about this new variant, and some of the information people are sharing can be misleading. So we want to talk about the omicron variant,...
①A LITTLE MORE than a year after the first success of a covid-19 vaccine in a clinical trial, a sense of dread has struck much of the world. ②The Omicron variant of the coronavirus, first publicly identified on November 24th, may be able to circumvent the defences built up by vaccina...
What is the Kraken? It is the nickname for a worrying new subvariant of the Omicron strain of COVID-19. “It is on the increase in the U.S. and Europe and has now been identified in more than 25 countries,”said World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on ...
Doctors studyingOmicron's spreadaround the world have found new clues to the pattern of symptoms caused by the highly-mutatedCOVID-19variant, which a growing number of reports suggest might show up differently and faster compared to the Delta variant it is now displacing. ...
A combination of the delta (AY.4) and BA.1 omicron variants has been named by the World Health Organization as the BA.1 x AY.4 recombinant. First detected in France in January 2022, it has since picked up the nickname "deltacron"1— Elisabeth Mahase finds out more Recombinants can ...
A new variant of Covid-19 - dubbed Pirola - could spread rapidly in France this winter, bringing new symptoms such as eye and skin irritation, and digestive issues, experts have warned. Pirola is a subvariant of the variant Omicron. Epidemiologist expert Professor François B...
With the World Health Organisation listing Omicron as a 'variant of concern,' and the UK tightening COVID-19 measures, we ask: what are the symptoms of Omicron?
BA.2 is a new sub-set of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 that’s been detected in multiple places around the world in recent weeks. The World Health Organization has not deemed it “a variant of concern” by giving it a Greek letter, but scientists are studying the new ...
How dangerous is the new variant? Early datafrom South Africa suggested that patients face alower risk of hospitalizationfrom Omicron, though it was initially unclear if that's because the variant is milder than earlier waves or because more people have some immunity from prior infections. ...