Omicron

High-risk people should consider wearing two face masks to guard against contracting the omicron variant, two Hong Kong virus experts said, as the city attempts to stamp out an outbreak of the highly infectious virus. Wearing a cloth mask…
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Amid the increasing number of COVID-19 cases around the globe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has now warned and urged for preparedness against concurrent outbreaks of COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases during the coming spring.…
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More than 313 million coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases and over 5.5 million related fatalities have been confirmed so far globally amid the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. The United States continue to report an exponential surge…
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More than half of the European population are expected to be infected with the omicron coronavirus variant within the next six to eight weeks, the World Health Organization’s top Europe official said on Tuesday. Europe saw more than 7…
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Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, on Monday, shared details about the COVID-19 situation in the country and said that the situation is dynamic and evolving therefore the need for hospitalization may also change rapidly. As of now, five…
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The number of daily new Covid-19 cases in the country has once again been increasing sharply and has remained above the 1,00,000-mark for two consecutive days with the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) now driving the surge across many states.…
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Omicron – the new, highly transmissible variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus – has taken the world by storm, driving up daily Covid-19 numbers in exceptional measures. Although there currently is a debate among public health…
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Restrictions imposed in the wake of the omicron coronavirus variant have “wiped out” much of a recent recovery enjoyed by UK bricks-and-mortar stores, the British Retail Consortium revealed Friday. Much of the progress made in late 2021…
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Fuelled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, Australia's daily coronavirus infections soared to a fresh peak on Thursday, overwhelming hospitals, while isolation rules caused labour shortages, putting a strain on businesses and…
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Chief scientist of the World Health Organization Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Wednesday said many countries are still not sequencing Omicron while the variant of SARS-CoV-2 is becoming the dominant Covid variant worldwide. According to data,…
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