The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

‘This is likely the beginning of a BA.5 wave’

With immunity waning and the super-contagious omicron family of variants getting better at dodging protection, the Food and Drug Administration decided boosters intended for fall needed an update.

Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ:BNTX) have announced a new vaccine supply agreement with the U.S. government. Under the agreement, the U.S. government will receive 105 million doses (30 µg, 10 µg and 3 µg). This may include adult omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccines, subject to the FDA authorization.  The doses are planned to be delivered…

The FDA will have to decide the exact recipe. But expect a combination shot that adds protection against omicron or some of its newer relatives to the original vaccine.

The latest figures published on Friday by the Office for National Statistics revealed that one in 20 people in Scotland currently have the virus.

Teachers have issued a Covid warning after the number of children off school rose by a quarter in two weeks.

BA.4 and BA.5 have already triggered a rise in infections in the UK, with experts warning that the country is already in the midst of its fifth coronavirus wave with nearly 300,000 people infected each day

Recent weeks has seen a resurgence amongst case rates for Covid as an omicron subvariant powers the spread across the UK despite it being summer time

Omicron sub-variants driving up infections in 110 nations, WHO director-general warns