The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

Are COVID travel curbs on China making the world safer?

They will not affect global infection numbers or new variant spread but might be pushing an opaque China to open up.

Al Jazeera · Jan 31, 2023

10 most common current Covid symptoms as new variant spreads

Most common current symptoms revealed

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2023

‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip

After three years of lockdowns, the country was ill prepared for its abrupt ‘freedom’. Now, with some estimating 1m deaths, public anger is growing

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2023

Covid: Spring and autumn booster jabs planned for people most at risk

‘Emergency’ surge vaccines could also be required if a new variant arises that is different to Omicron

Evening Standard · Jan 25, 2023

Updated COVID vaccines prevented illness from latest variants -CDC

The updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE and Moderna helped prevent symptomatic infections against the new XBB-related subvariants, offering new evidence of how the vaccines perform against these fast-spreading strains, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Jan 25, 2023

Even bivalent updated COVID-19 boosters struggle to prevent omicron subvariant transmission – an immunologist discusses why new approaches are necessary

By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success.

The Conversation · Jan 25, 2023

‘Vistara’s highest ever yield in October-December 2022 led to its first profitable quarter this Q3’

NEW DELHI: Vistara, which had started flying in January 2015 and reported its first operationally profitable quarter in October-December 2022, has seen its highest ever revenue per seat km (RASK) — or yield/ticket prices in simple terms — in the October-December 2022 period when travel rebounded big time post Omicron.

The Times of India · Jan 24, 2023

Coronavirus: US proposes annual COVID shots

COVID vaccinations are likely to become an annual shot in the US. The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday have proposed to make COVID jabs like an annual flu shot. This, reports say, is a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts and will help in a better vaccination coverage…

The Times of India · Jan 24, 2023

Has California avoided another devastating winter COVID wave?

LOS ANGELES — In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, winter holidays were marred by a pair of devastating waves that ripped through California, sending case counts soaring, residents to the hospital in droves and, ultimately, leaving thousands dead.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 23, 2023

Afternoon Update: Coalition sowing doubt on Indigenous voice; pensioner’s $65,000 robodebt; and cathedral sex party rumours

Noel Pearson suggests opposition leader Peter Dutton is playing ‘a spoiling game’ as experts say detail on voice comes later

The Guardian - AU · Jan 23, 2023