The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

Health authorities found it had higher growth rate all over England

Prof Ross Gordon backs Victorian and NSW premiers’ calls for a three-dose vaccine mandate to mitigate worst effects of Omicron

Dr Susan Hopkins: ‘We have also learnt that BA.2 has a slightly higher secondary attack rate than BA.1 in households’

The BA.2 strain is a sub-lineage of the now dominant original Omicron variant known as BA.1.

City chapter of National Restaurant Association of India launched

This week hospital bosses around the region have spoken about how the peak of Omicron hospitalisations may have passed.

So-called "delayed discharges" have increased during the Omicron wave of Covid-19 as staff absence and outbreaks in care homes have a knock-on impact on the NHS.

Turkey has recorded 93,586 new COVID-19 cases in the space of 24 hours, its highest daily figure of the pandemic, health ministry data showed on Friday. Daily cases have surged to record high levels in recent weeks with the spread of the Omicron variant but Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has…

This comes in the same week that England has eased most of the remaining significant Plan B restrictions in the country, changing rules around mask use and Covid passes

With infection rates of the ‘stealth’ Omicron Covid variant on the rise in the UK, we take a look at two lesser known symptoms, as well as the classic signs you should look out for

To control spread of Omicron variant of COVID-19