The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

BA.2.86, nicknamed Pirola, is a highly mutated new omicron sublineage of SARS-CoV-2 that was first detected in Denmark in July 2023.

The threat of Omicron was just the final nail in the coffin of a mismanaged DHB-owned and run aged-care facility.

As new variants of COVID are making the rounds, the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have approved a new round of COVID-19 vaccines.

The highly mutated Omicron subvariant has been detected in four US states

New strain of Omicron now detected in 15 countries worldwide

The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across the globe.

The variant of the virus which causes Covid-19 is ‘highly infectious’, Devi Sridhar said

The variant of the virus which causes Covid-19 is ‘highly infectious’, Devi Sridhar said.

Spanish President Pedro Sánchez on Thursday announced that he had tested positive for COVID and would not attend the summit. U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in India on Friday, despite his wife testing positive earlier in the week.