The study, led by Alex Sigal at the Africa Health Research Institute in the South African city of Durban, indicates that the Covid-19 patho...

Boston University's scientists produced a new COVID strain that is highly potent and has an 80 per cent probability of killing an infected ...

"Sanofi-GSK's vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial in an environment of high Omicron varian...

"New Omicron BA.4 & BA.5 detected in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and U.K. Early indications that these new sublineag...

XE coronavirus variant is said to be 10 times more transmissible than Omicron.

UK's SAGE advisors have warned of a "realistic possibility" that a more lethal variant could emerge that kills one in three people, in line...

The lab tests also showed that some antibodies have entirely lost their ability to neutralise Omicron at realistic dosages. "The bottom lin...

A vaccine focused directly on the Omicron variant would also guard against breakthrough infections of a strain that has proven highly conta...

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...

While Delta is still the most common variant in all continents except Africa, Omicron is spreading very quickly.

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

Experts at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), an autonomous institute under the Department of Biotechnology...

UK has reported over 50% rise in weekly Covid cases while daily infections in South Africa have swelled by 75-times since the start of Nove...

Vaccines from Moderna, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and partner BioNTech retained activity against Omicron, but the antibody response was greatly re...

The panel on health, which presented its report on Friday, also said that concerns with regard to the new strain developing immunoescape me...

Given the widespread exposure of Indians to Covid-19 virus and a reasonably-high vaccination rate, India will likely be less affected by th...

The Omicron virus strain’s emergence sparked a dramatic Treasuries rally on Friday. Traders rushed to push back the timing of a 2022 rate h...