Of 1,02,315 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US from March 3, 2020 to June 20 this year, there were 20,770 labelled as Delta variants, 52,60...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against XE, a new variant of Omicron first detected in the UK, and suggested that ...

We're seeing cases of a sub-variant of Omicron, known as BA.2, emerge in Australia and more than 50 countries.

As many as 9,672 Omicron samples were found in January in genome sequencing constituting 75 per cent of the total sequenced samples of COVI...

Dr Sriram Subramaniam, professor in UBC faculty of medicine's department of biochemistry and molecular biology, said that Omicron has great...

Indian stock indices extended gains for the third straight day on Thursday, brushing aside growing worries about the spread of Omicron in E...

Overall, the S&P 500 is down only 0.1% since the Omicron variant was identified on Nov. 24. Travel and tourism stocks that would be most af...

The Omicron variant, which was designated as a variant of concern on Nov. 26, has been identified in 89 countries across all six WHO region...

The overall threat posed by Omicron largely depends on three key questions -- its transmissibility; how well the vaccines and prior SARS-Co...

The findings, published in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infection, also suggest that although a third-dose of vaccines can “significantl...

Brent crude futures dropped 25 cents, or 0.3%, to $75.19 a barrel at 0129 GMT, after settling 3.2% higher on Tuesday. U.S. West Texas Inter...

The worst-case scenario is the virus has mutated so much in the crucial parts of its genome that it can escape vaccines designed to protect...

Much has been made about the potential that can be caused by the Omicron variant of coronavirus and India, especially, is concerned if it c...

The emergence of the new variant poses new risks to the global economic growth and inflation outlook, as concerns mount about the variant's...

Portals such as Cleartrip and Ixigo said they are flooded with passenger queries on new testing and quarantine rules in India and possibili...

Several disease experts interviewed said there are strong grounds already for believing that Omicron will render vaccines less effective. O...

"There is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with Omicron are different from those from other variants," the WHO ...