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Omicron, sub-lineages remain dominant variant in India: INSACOGAmid the declining trajectory of daily Covid-19 cases in India, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) on Sunday said that ...
Moderna seeks US FDA approval for Omicron Covid booster for children over 6 yearsIn a request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Boston-based biotech has requested that omicron shots be approved for teenagers age...
BA.4.6: What we know about the new Omicron subvariant that is spreadingBA.4.6 is a descendant of the BA.4 variant, which was first detected in January 2022 . It's possible it could be a recombinant variant.
Another new COVID variant is spreading - here's what we know about omicron BA.4.6The latest briefing document on COVID variants from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) noted that during the week beginning August 14, B...
High vaccination, natural infection protected India from Omicron wave: NK AroraAccording to Arora, in India both the BA.4 and BA.5 variants have not been able to spread rapidly as vaccination coverage was high and work...
What is the BA.5 variant and why does it seem to be reinfecting so many people with COVID-19?BA.5 is a sister variant of the Omicron strain that has been dominant worldwide since the end of 2021, and has already caused spikes in cas...
BA.5 sub-variant can re-infect you with Covid 'within weeks': ExpertsThat means even if you were infected in 2020 with Delta or even Omicron BA.1 last winter, you can still get BA.5. Your previous immunity do...
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...
BA.4, BA.5 subvariants causing COVID spike in West Bengal: Experts"We have been conducting genome sequencing on positive samples in West Bengal. A few subvariants of Omicron, mostly the BA.4 and BA.5 was f...
COVID-19: Samples collected from central, south, southeast Delhi show presence of BA.5 sub-variant of OmicronThe findings were discussed at a meeting on June 17 by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), which reviewed the COVID-19 dat...
Newer Omicron subvariants escape immunity provided by vaccination, previous infection: StudySince the initial highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant known as BA.1 of COVID-19 emerged last year, its new subvariants continue to...
Omicron's BA-5 sub-variant may be behind Tamil Nadu's rising Covid cases: GovernmentThe presence of Omicron's BA-5 sub-variant may be the reason for the sudden spike in cases in Tamil Nadu, the state Public Health and Preve...
Three cases of BA.4 and 1 of BA.5 Omicron sub-variants of coronavirus found in MumbaiBA.4 and BA.5 are sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus which had triggered the third wave of the pand...
Cases of B.A. sub-lineage of Omicron found in Maharashtra for first time“The whole genome sequencing was conducted by the Institute of Science Education and Research, and its finding has been confirmed by the In...
COVID-19: NRI on Gujarat visit tests positive for Omicron sub-variant BA.5The man, who lives in South Africa, had on May 1 tested positive for the coronavirus after he arrived here to meet his parents. He had left...
Govt steps up contact tracing in view of Omicron sub-variantsBoth sub-variants, first reported in South Africa earlier this year, are now reported from several countries. They are responsible for the ...
COVID's new Omicron sub-lineages can dodge immunity from past infection: StudyThe scientists from multiple institutions were examining Omicron's BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages - which the World Health Organization last mon...
Continuing to monitor 'several descendent lineages' of Omicron variant: WHOThe World Health Organisation has said that it is continuing to monitor "several descendent lineages" of the Omicron variant of the coronav...
Two new Omicron subvariants detected by South African scientists"New Omicron BA.4 & BA.5 detected in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and U.K. Early indications that these new sublineag...
Omicron sibling can't be detected by imported RT-PCR kits: ExpertsThe elusive sibling (sub-lineage) of the Omicron variant, BA.2, cannot be picked up by the imported RT-PCR kit having an S gene drop, resea...