Tag: variant
‘Deltacron’ variant prompts doubts among experts as possible lab error
Covid lab technicians in India on Friday Jan. 7, 2022.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGlobal health experts are casting doubts over reports of [...]
Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta
Staff at CSL are working in the lab on November 08, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, where they will begin manufacturing AstraZeneca-Oxford University [...]
Germany to outline new restrictions in order to tackle omicron variant
Among the steps being considered is a requirement for people with only two vaccination shots to show proof of a negative test in order to enter a r [...]
Omicron variant in Maharashtra and Delhi
A health worker administers a dose of the Bharat Biotech Ltd. Covaxin vaccine at a Covid-19 vaccination center set up at the Delhi Municipal Corp. [...]
New Variant Greets New Year: Top Trade Q1 2022
As the calendar turns to 2022, the slate is wiped clean of the buoyant enthusiasm that carried risk markets higher through the second half of 2020 [...]
Australia – Intensive care admissions from the Omicron variant have been “minuscule”
Local media (The Australian newspaper (may be gated) ):
only 0.1 per cent of cases in NSW and 0.3 per cent of cases in Victoria needing urgent [...]
ICE detention facilities aren’t ready for the omicron variant
Immigrants in detention have been at heightened risk throughout the pandemic. They have been confined to environments where social distancing is [...]
Omicron variant has lower risk of hospitalization, studies suggest
A health worker packages a coronavirus swab test at a Testaro Covid-19 testing site in the Goodwood district of Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursda [...]
WHO urges holiday caution amid spread of omicron Covid variant
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nat [...]
No evidence that Covid omicron variant less severe than delta: UK study
An employee at a testing station in the city centre takes a swab from a woman. In Lower Saxony, stricter Corona rules apply in many areas.Hauke-Chr [...]
The omicron variant should prompt a rethinking of our Covid isolation protocols
A lot of people are going to contract the new omicron variant in the coming weeks. Some of them will feel sick and, as has always been the case, [...]
Fauci says omicron will become dominant Covid variant soon, urges booster shots
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [...]
The omicron variant will bring a Covid-19 wave this winter. What can we do to stop it?
As an ongoing wave of delta collides with the new omicron variant just as people are traveling and gathering for the holidays, all signs now poi [...]