The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday admitted Omicron variant of the coronavirus was already the dominant one worldwide, accounting for almost 60% of the cases. The new strain, which two ...

TASS/. The Omicron coronavirus variant is five to seven times more contagious than other strains, Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work at the Central Scientific Research Institute of ...

MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. Dozens of different coronavirus strains currently circulate in Russia, and they differ significantly from the original Omicron strain says head of the Gamaleia Research ...

Both Omicron strains are said to be more contagious than the BA.2 strain that is now dominant in Japan. The BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 subvariants could soon take over as the most dominant. The ministry ...

COVID-19 boosters for omicron are coming this fall. That may be too late to fight the BA.5 variant Regulators' slow-moving response to newly emerging coronavirus strains could hinder our ability ...

The Arcturus subvariant stems from the Omicron strain of Covid-19 and is known as XBB.1.16 since it descends from the recombinant variant XBB, which combines two sublineages of Omicron BA.2.