The Omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5, is causing concern among scientists after its rapid spread in the United States in December.
Here is what we know so...
KARACHI: The Sindh Health Department on Tuesday confirmed the presence of XBB and XBB-1 sub-variants of the Omicron variant in Karachi, ARY News reported.
Karachi...
UK health regulator on Wednesday approved the country's first two-pronged COVID-19 booster targeting the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants and the original coronavirus strain.
The...
US drugmaker Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE said on Friday their Omicron-tailored shot targeting the BA.4/5 subvariants produced a strong antibody response in...
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said their COVID-19 vaccine booster, adapted for the BA.4 and the BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, generated a strong...
Britain has become the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine that targets both the original and Omicron variant of the virus.
The UK medicines...
The following is a summary of some recent studies on the COVID-19 Omicron variant. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the...
Moderna said on Wednesday that an updated version of its COVID-19 vaccine designed to target the Omicron variant also generated a strong immune response...
The Omicron variant of coronavirus is less likely to cause long COVID than previous variants, according to the first peer-reviewed study of its kind...
Karachi: Sindh government has ordered the Health and Interior Ministries to analyze the new Covid-19 Omicron's sub-variant BA.2.12 and submit a report as soon...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday reported the country's first case of Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12.1, said the National Institute of Health (NIH) in a statement.
"NIH has...
The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more...
A sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron version of coronavirus known as BA.2 is now dominant worldwide, prompting surges in many countries in Europe...
A year after infection with the coronavirus, when antibodies in the blood are barely detectable, the immune system continues to "remember" the virus and...
China has moved to free up hospital beds as officials on Wednesday reported thousands of new cases from an Omicron-led coronavirus outbreak that has...
Patients infected with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 remain contagious for just as long as patients infected with earlier variants, according to a small...
Getting infected twice with two different Omicron coronavirus subvariants is possible, but rarely happens, a Danish study has found.
In Denmark, a more infectious sublineage...