Omicrons

A health worker inoculates a man with a dose of the Pfizer vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at F-9 in the federal capital. — Online/FileThe National Institute of Health (NIH) Tuesday clarified that no case of the BF.7…

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Since its emergence in 2020, COVID-19 has produced multiple mutations as it spread across the world. Many of those variants did not become dominant, but few did including Alpha, Delta and Omicron. Those mutations caught the attention…

The omicron subvariant known as BA.5 was first detected in South Africa in February 2022 and spread rapidly throughout the world. As of the second week of July 2022, BA.5 constituted nearly 80 per cent of COVID-19 variants in the United…

The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant continues to be the dominant variant resulting in 85% of cases in the country, people in the know told ET. The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (Insacog), the group of government…

India recorded 9,923 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours with a daily positivity rate of 2.55 per cent, as per the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Maharashtra reported 2,345 fresh…

Omicron was first reported in South Africa on Nov. 24, 2021, and within mere days it was already making the rounds in the United States, spiking SARS-CoV-2 case numbers as it infiltrated every school, restaurant, and family gathering. But…

Covid India Cases Updates: First cases of B.A. 4 & 5 variants have been found in Maharashtra. Four patients of B.A. 4 variants and three patients of B.A. 5 variants were listed in Pune, as per the latest report of the Whole Genomic…

Alarmingly, even if someone has been infected with the Omicron sub-variant BA.1, reinfection is still possible with sub-lineages of BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 due to their capacity to evade immune responses. CORONAVIRUS UNDERGOES ‘MUTATIONAL…

"It is seen that Children usually have only mild symptoms of COVID-19 which are quite difficult to differentiate from other viral illnesses and disease. The common symptoms are fever, runny nose, cough, generalized body pain, vomiting ,…