The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

The South-West of England has seen a surge in Covid cases and hospital admissions

Eris desends from Omicron and is now the second most prevalent Covid variant in the UK

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India’s first indigenously developed mRNA vaccine against the dominant Omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus will cost ₹2,292, Sanjay Singh, CEO, Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, said at a press conference on June 24.

So the California Court of Appeal has held, concluding that there is enough of a factual dispute (under California's plaintiff-friendly pleading standards) for the case to go forward.

In early 2021, recommendations about COVID vaccines were pretty straightforward – get two doses, as soon as you are eligible. A year later, we knew getting a third dose was important for protection against the new Omicron variant.

India’s first indigenous mRNA vaccine for the Omicron variant, GEMCOVAC-OM, developed by Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd, was approved under emergency use guidelines by the Drug Controller General of India late on June 19. This comes a year after the company got approval for GEMCOVAC-19, the country’s first m-RNA vaccine against…

The next round of COVID-19 vaccines will target one of the latest versions of the coronavirus

COVID-19 shots should be reformulated to target an XBB subvariant of the highly infectious omicron strain to provide the best protection during the U.S. fall and winter season, health regulators said.