The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

Fears have risen that the more transmissible strain is now building momentum in the country after two previous cases were reported by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan earlier this month

Weibo Corp (NASDAQ:WB) banned Trip.Com Group Limited (NASDAQ:TCOM) co-founder and Chair James Liang for alleged violation of laws, Reuters reports. The social media company neither elaborated on the violation nor cited the reasons behind the ban. Liang had recently questioned the wisdom of the country's zero-COVID strategy as the country's Presidential election draws closer. Also…

LOS ANGELES — The number of coronavirus cases in California has significantly worsened this past week, hitting a level not seen since the winter’s omicron surge and raising concerns about the possibility of a big jump in infections this summer.

The isolated East Asian country has only stated how many people have fevers daily, and has only identified a few of the cases as COVID-19 since admitting to an outbreak of the omicron variant.

In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.

Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, growth has averaged almost 10% a year, and more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty. There have also been significant improvements in access to health, education and other services, with the mainland now an…

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave

According to Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan, two cases of BA.4, a subvariant of the Omicron strain, were detected earlier this month

Covid cases still seem to be falling fast, but it's too early to say if two new Omicron variants could have a serious impact.