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WHO classifies B.1.1.529 as Omicron, a Covid variant of concern

The global health agency met on Friday to name the B.1.1.529 strain and decided to classify it as a “variant…

2 years ago

‘This is Covid-21,’ Belgium PM declares as ‘Nu’ variant hits Europe

Speaking on Friday, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told a press conference that the latest wave of coronavirus should…

2 years ago

First cases of ‘worst-ever’ Covid-19 variant reported in Europe

“We are currently analyzing two suspicious samples,” Marc Van Ranst, a leading virologist whose laboratory works closely with Belgium’s public…

2 years ago

Scholars explain mysterious disappearance of Delta variant in Japan

In mid-August, Japan experienced a peak in Covid-19 infections, recording over 23,000 new cases per day. Now the metric is…

2 years ago

Covid vaccinations ‘not sufficient’ in preventing Delta variant spread, almost equal to unvaccinated – UK study

Researchers looked at over 600 people in the UK over the course of a year for the study, done by…

3 years ago

Coronavirus A.30 variant ‘efficiently evades’ antibodies induced by Pfizer & AstraZeneca vaccines – lab study

A team from Germany looked at the rare A.30 variant that was first recorded in Tanzania and later detected in…

3 years ago

New Covid variant, known as ‘Mu’, under close WHO scrutiny due to concerns over its vaccine resistance

The WHO announced the classification in the organization’s weekly pandemic bulletin on Tuesday, several months after the Mu strain was…

3 years ago

As Delta variant rages, Saint Petersburg study finds Sputnik V vaccine is 81% effective at preventing Covid hospitalizations

The team of Russian researchers analyzed the data from nearly 14,000 patients who had tested positive for the virus and were referred…

3 years ago

Russian scientists develop new variant of Sputnik V vaccine, modified to deal with fast-spreading deadly Delta strain of Covid-19

Alexander Gintzburg, who heads up Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, told Interfax on Thursday that a modified version of Sputnik V had…

3 years ago

Fauci warns of ‘worse variant’ that ‘could impact the vaccinated’ if Covid-19 is allowed to keep mutating in unvaxxed population

Those who remain unvaccinated, Fauci claimed in a Sunday interview with MSNBC, are responsible for the coronavirus mutating, which has…

3 years ago