Experts have reduced the protective window of prior infection from 12 weeks to 28 days.

People who are triple-vaccinated against COVID-19 develop a high-quality antibody response which can neutralise the Omicron variant efficie...

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

While the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs ...

The reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake" and does not indicate that the viru...

Omicron appears to replicate much more efficiently than previous variants.

A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect peo...

Previous research had shown that some of these mutations enabled coronaviruses to grab onto cells more tightly. Others allowed the virus to...

Plausibly, in the future, there will be more Covid-19 variants. But as the research shows, the T-cell response due to vaccination and infec...

However, the study found that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca preventives may protect well against th...

Scientists have identified antibodies that neutralise Omicron and other variants of coronavirus by targeting areas that remain essentially ...

The researchers from Columbia University in the US and the University of Hong Kong noted that a striking feature of Omicron is the alarming...

Omicron will not be the final variant, but it may be the final variant of concern. If we are lucky, and the course of this pandemic is hard...

The researchers from University of Hong Kong found that Omicron infects and multiplies 70 times faster than the Delta variant and original ...

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine provides less immunity against Omicron than from other coronavirus variants, according to a lab study that sugg...

Karnataka last Thursday reported India's first two Omicron cases. While the 46-year old Bengalurean with no travel history is being treated...

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...