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BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant symptoms: How is it different from previous COVID strains, should you be worried?New Covid variant 2026 Cicada symptoms: The highly mutated new BA.3.2 Cicada COVID Variant has now spread to at least 23 countries, sparkin...- ‘Cicada’ Covid variant with 75 mutations is spreading: What it means for youCicada Covid Variant Symptoms: A new COVID variant with 70-75 spike protein mutations has been detected. The new virus can potentially evad...
- Covid immunity: How long are we protected against reinfection? Large study offers new cluesWhen assessing severe disease, however, all variants showed sustained protection above 88 per cent for 40 weeks.
- Natural infection lowers risk of hospitalisation or death by 88 pc for at least 10 months: Lancet studyThe systematic review and meta-analysis included 65 studies from 19 countries including India and evaluated the effectiveness of past infec...
- Risk of death due to Covid 90% lower in people already hit: Lancet medical journalAn analysis of five studies reporting on severe disease (hospitalisation and death) found that protection remained high for 10 months - up ...
- Omicron BF.7: What is herd immunity? Can it protect us from fourth Covid wave?Experts stated that the severity of Omicron BF.7 in India may be less severe than in China because Indians have already developed 'herd imm...
- 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...
- People can catch Omicron twice, but reinfections aren't dangerous: Health expertsFarah Ingale, director, internal medicine at Fortis Hiranandani Hospital Vashi, said the hospital is seeing new cases of reinfection, espec...
- Hybrid immunity effective in preventing Omicron spread, finds new study led by Kerala doctorThe research data was published in Lancet Rheumatology in November.
- Immune response induced by Omicron effectively neutralise Delta variant: ICMR studyIt suggests that the immune response induced by the Omicron could effectively neutralise the Delta variant, making the re-infection with De...
- Omicron wave may cut future severity of COVID-19 disease, says new studyThe researchers from Africa Health Research Institute observed in samples from 23 people infected with Omicron in November and December tha...
- Omicron's explosive spread potential makes threat level very high globally, says INSACOG"Omicron has a clear growth advantage over Delta with the highest level of immune escape so far as well as high intrinsic transmissibility,...
- Omicron natural vaccine? Experts call notion dangerous, say doesn't take 'long Covid' into accountNoted virologist Shahid Jameel said the notion that Omicron is a natural vaccine is a dangerous idea spread by irresponsible people. "It br...
- South Africa study suggests Omicron enhances neutralizing immunity against DeltaThe study, which has not been peer-reviewed, found that people who were infected with Omicron, especially those who were vaccinated, develo...
- Omicron coronavirus cases doubling in 1.5-3 days in areas with local spread, says WHOThe Omicron variant, which was designated as a variant of concern on Nov. 26, has been identified in 89 countries across all six WHO region...
- Covid vaccines, previous infection offer ‘stronger than basic' protection against Omicron: StudyThe findings, published in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infection, also suggest that although a third-dose of vaccines can “significantl...
- Omicron coronavirus variant linked with high risk of reinfection: StudyThis is the first data-based study to suggest that Omicron may evade immunity from prior infection.
- Omicron will be in major cities but with mild symptoms: Former CSIR institute Chief"The results indicate that the hybrid immunity will be effective against the new variant, Director of Tata Institute for Genetics and Socie...
- Risk of reinfection very high in Omicron: StudyThe authors said that they found no evidence that reinfection risk increased as a result of the emergence of Beta or Delta variants, sugges...
- Covid-19 FAQs: Will there be a third wave amid increasing Omicron cases?"Given the collection of mutations in Omicron, which earlier individually have been associated with increased infectivity and/or immune eva...
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