Tag: Omicron variant

The NICD executive director professor Adrian Puren says he fully agrees with the way the Health Department is dealing with ...

China's Hainan, an island province dependent on tourism, locked down more areas on Monday, Reuters calculations based on state media ...

 Late-stage data on an experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Sanofi  and GSK has shown the shot confers protection against the Omicron ...

The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron are estimated to make up nearly 5% and 8% of the coronavirus variants ...

A third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE) produced significant protection against the Omicron variant of the ...

he Omicron BA.2 sub-variant of COVID-19 appears to be more infectious than the original BA.1 sub-variant, but does not cause ...

China's President Xi Jinping has told Hong Kong's leaders that their "overriding mission" was to stabilise and control a worsening ...

China's President Xi Jinping has told Hong Kong's leaders that their "overriding mission" was to stabilise and control a worsening ...

 The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says the coronavirus test positivity rate has dipped below 10% in the latest ...

The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus - the most common form of which is known as BA.1 ...

Moderna Inc said on Wednesday it had started a mid-stage study, testing a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine specifically designed ...

A New York judge struck down the state's mask mandate on Monday, one week before it was due to expire, ...

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate ...

 France's parliament gave final approval on Sunday to the government's latest measures to tackle the COVID-19 virus, including a vaccine ...

 Unvaccinated people infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus may be less prone to severe illness and requiring hospital care ...

The highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant causes less severe disease than the Delta strain but it remains a "dangerous virus", ...

Preliminary findings from two South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of "asymptomatic ...

Shares in PharmaMar (PHMR.MC) jumped almost 20% on Tuesday after the Spanish drugmaker said lab trials suggested its Plitidepsin drug was effective ...

The United States reported 1.35 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, the highest daily total ...