The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

Professor Linda Bauld says Covid boosters may be extended to a wider range of groups in autumn.

Latest data from the Office for National Statistics showed that around one in 40 people in Scotland had Covid-19, up from one in 50 the previous week.

The Omicron variant of coronavirus is less likely to cause long COVID than previous variants, according to the first peer-reviewed study of its kind from the United Kingdom.

Two new Omicron variants are set to become the most prevalent in New South Wales as a result of their "growth advantage" over previous strains, according to NSW Health.

Researchers from King’s College London have found that the Omicron variant "appears substantially less likely to cause long Covid than other variants" in a new study

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Scientists say the variant has less than half the chance of Delta of causing lingering symptoms

NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) health department is on high alert following detection of new Omicron variant BA.5 among two city patients. However, uncooperative Covid positive patients are posing a challenge before the zonal medical teams which are helpless due to lack of stringent provisions like those invoked during…

Some scientists estimate that cases of long COVID from omicron will still rise, however, because of high transmissibility and the misconception that people don't have to worry about catching it.