The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has recently approved a new COVID booster. The shot was developed by Pfizer and targets the JN.1 sub-variant of Omicron.

Unlike the US, Canada and Australia, the UK is only giving free boosters to some. But the cost of restricting them could be huge, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

Covid XEC variant is touted to become the dominant strain in the coming months and people must watch out for the symptoms of this new strain that experts say can cause more 'flu-like' symptoms and wipe out people. While it's not easy to distinguish between different strains of Omicron variant,…

Over the nearly five years since COVID first emerged, you’d be forgiven if you’ve lost track of the number of new variants we’ve seen. Some have had a bigger impact than others, but virologists have documented thousands.

The U.S. is coming down from its biggest COVID summer surge yet as a new subvariant emerges—but new vaccines are here, too.

Covid XEC, a new and stronger variant of Coronavirus is fast spreading in Europe and surrounding areas, and is set to become a dominant strain come winters, as per experts.

More contagious virus is sublineage of omicron variant, scientists say

Close on the heels of US approving vaccines to fight KP.2 variant of Omicron, Health Canada has said they are reviewing updated vaccines that target the strain currently in circulation. The health regulator has said the review process will be completed by early autumn, post which the vaccines will be…

The updated COVID shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna target the current KP.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2, a descendant of the highly contagious Omicron subvariant JN.1.

Headlines are again warning of a new COVID variant in Australia. This time it’s LB.1, or as some experts have dubbed it, “D-FLiRT”.