Omicron

New York:  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has strongly advised against antibody treatments for Covid-19 patients, saying antibody drugs sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab are not working on new variants like Omicron. These drugs…

London:  Vaccinated people who were infected by the earlier Omicron subvariants have four times greater protection than vaccinated people who were not infected against the new variants like BA.5, finds a new study. The study indicates…

New York:  If you exercise regularly, then there are chances you may have a lower risk of Covid-19 infection and severity, including hospital admission and death, finds a new study. The study, published in the British Journal of Sports…

New York:  The majority of people who were likely infected with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, did not know they had the virus, according to a new study. Researchers from Smidt Heart Institute at…

London:  The incidence of reinfection from the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is more common than previously thought, according to a study in Iceland. Reinfection is defined as a positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2a-60 or more days from a…

Los Angeles:  The newer and most contagious Omicron subvariants, known as BA.4 and BA.5, now make up more than 80 percent of Covid-19 infections in the US, according to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Los Angeles: The newer and most contagious Omicron subvariants, known as BA.4 and BA.5, now made up over 70 per cent of Covid-19 infections in the US, according to the latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

The Hague:  Europe is facing a new wave of Covid-19 driven by the highly-transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said. "We see a new wave of COVID-19 in many members of the European…

Geneva:  Unlike other Covid variants, Omicron appears to be able to evade the antibodies generated by all other variants, according to a study. A team from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and of…

Geneva: It is too early to call the latest Omicron sub-variant BA.2.75, first reported from India last month, more severe, according to Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). Besides India, BA.2.75…