New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant hits US: What BA.3.2 means and why experts are watchingThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, nicknamed “Cicada,” has emerged in the United States and multiple countries, prompting close monitoring by the...
New Covid-19 Variant: Know how prevalent it is, where it is concentrated, its symptoms, how to protect from BA.2.86The CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) found that the public health risk posed by this variant is low because the variant doesn’t seem...
Canada detects first case of highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86The individual is not hospitalized, and the detection of BA.2.86 virus has not changed the risk to people in British Columbia, the province...
Nearly 90 pc Covid samples genome-sequenced in Delhi in July-August detected with BA.2 variantIn August, 2,064 samples were analysed and 90.35 per cent of those were detected with the BA.2 variant, while 199 samples were detected wit...
Omicron’s BA.2 sub-lineage still dominant in India: InsacogA few deaths that have been reported recently, are due to comorbidities. Covid appropriate behavior is likely to reduce the spread of the i...
New Omicron subvariant BA.5.2.1 found in ShanghaiThe case, found in the financial district of Pudong on July 8, was linked with a case from overseas, said Zhao Dandan, vice-director of the...
Covid-19: Two more cases of BA.5 variant found in MaharashtraOne of them was a 25-year-old woman and the other a 32-year-old man. They were found to have contracted coronavirus infection on May 28 and...
New Omicron sub-variant may be driving spike in casesThe Omicron variant of coronavirus replaced Delta as the predominant strain in India early this year. In the fourth week of December last y...
A new Covid wave is emerging. Here’s How you can prepare for thatHere is how you can plan to lower your risk of exposure, minimize the disruption to the lives of your family and friends and help to assure...
What is the new COVID-19 ‘stealth' variant BA.2. Will it cause another Covid wave?Some scientists have called BA.2 a “stealth” variant because, unlike the BA.1 variant, it lacks a particular genetic signature that disting...
What is the new COVID-19 variant BA.2, and will it cause another wave of infections in the US?BA.2 is the latest subvariant of omicron, the dominant strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. While the origin of BA.2 is sti...
COVID 4th wave incoming? All you need to know about Omicron BA.2 variantThe WHO has called the recent surge in cases 'tip of the iceberg'. The outbreak of the new variant, 'stealth' sub-variant of Omicron has ma...
All you need to know about the 'stealth' Omicron variantThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has called the recent surge in cases 'tip of the iceberg'. The outbreak of the new variant, 'stealth' s...
Israel records new Covid variant; check symptoms and severityThe strain, combining two sub-variants of the Omicron version of the Covid-19 virus -- dubbed BA.1 and BA.2 -- was recorded during PCR test...
COVID cases are on the rise in Asia and Europe. Is the US next?Europe has often been a few weeks before the U.S. with COVID trends — and cases are now rising in Britain, Germany, Italy and some other pa...
BA.2 subvariant of Omicron coronavirus variant may cause severe disease, lab study suggests"Although BA.2 is considered as an Omicron variant, its genomic sequence is heavily different from BA.1, which suggests that the virologica...
BA.2 Covid variant is like Omicron's sister. Here's what we know about it so farWe're seeing cases of a sub-variant of Omicron, known as BA.2, emerge in Australia and more than 50 countries.