Tag: Omicron
CDC director says high immunity in U.S. population provides some protection against omicron BA.2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky gives her opening statement during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and [...]
More contagious omicron BA.2 is on track to displace others in U.S.
A resident receives a Covid-19 swab test during a mobile clinic at Saint Paul MB Church in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022.Rory Doyl [...]
The White House is pressing Congress for more Covid funds as an Omicron subvariant spreads.
White House officials are again pleading with Congress for more emergency aid to buy coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics as a highly infectious Omic [...]
Omicron ‘stealth’ variant BA.2 is spreading rapidly in China
People line up for nucleic acid testing at a temporary Covid-19 testing site on March 22, 2022 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China.Vcg | Visual C [...]
Moderna vaccine for young kids up to 44% effective against omicron
With her husband Stephen by her side Erin Shih hugs her children Avery 6, and Aidan, 11, after they got their second Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Kais [...]
Is omicron subvariant BA.2 to blame for rising Covid cases?
A doctor monitors a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the community hospital in Germany on April 28, 2021.RONNY HARTMANN | AFP | [...]
New Jersey will end omicron health emergency, NYC to lift indoor vaccine mandate
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks to volunteers as he meets with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during the gubernatorial election in Newark, New Jersey, [...]
Pfizer vaccine was just 12% effective for kids in omicron surge: study
Nora Gossett, 7, reacts as she receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Sophia Jan, MD, while her father Jeff Gossett, MD, holds her hand at [...]
Transmissibility, severity, reinfection of Omicron BA.2 subvariant
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesA more contagious subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, is spreading across the globe and could soon become th [...]
Hong Kong’s omicron spike tests its zero-Covid approach
On February 16, 2022, patients lie in hospital beds waiting for medical treatment in a temporary holding area outside Caritas Medical Center in Hong K [...]
Singapore hopes to ease Covid measures after omicron peaks: Lawrence Wong
SINGAPORE — Singapore's Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said the country is "quietly confident" about handling the highly transmissible omicron variant [...]
Buying GBP/USD, As UK Services Surge on Receding Omicron
The GBP has been showing increasing bearish pressure since the beginning of this year, after the bearish reversal in the second half of 2021. GBP/USD [...]
Moderna, Pfizer stocks fall as Covid omicron wave subsides in U.S.
Moderna vaccines are prepared for application at a United States military vaccination centre at Camp Foster on April 28, 2021 in Ginowan, Japan.Carl C [...]
No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope
Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021.Jeenah Moon | Blo [...]
New York state lifts indoor mask mandate as surge in omicron cases subsides
A person wearing a face mask leaves a store on January 26, 2022 in New York City.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesNew York is dropping its strict indo [...]