The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Overlapping waves of omicron are sweeping through Florida, leading more people to get infected with COVID.

Victorians are highly vaccinated as they enter winter with plenty of COVID-19 circulating and the scale of the response largely in the community's hands. Here's what will be crucial in curbing the coming wave of infections.

Yatra Online, Inc (NASDAQ:YTRA) reported fourth-quarter revenue growth of 19.3% year-on-year to $8 million. The increase in revenue was primarily due to a recovery in domestic travel demand.  Revenue from the Air Ticketing business decreased 4.4% Y/Y to $4.2 million. The Hotels and Packages business revenue was $2.4 million versus $1.1 million a…

City offices are slowly refilling after the Omicron outbreak forced workers to stay at home. But only a few employees want a full-time return.

Europe faces prospect of further Covid measures later in the year as share of Omicron BA.5 cases rise in Portugal and Germany

Key Takeaways: Alibaba’s revenue for the January-March quarter increased 8.9% year-on-year, the slowest pace for any quarter since it went public Yet revenue beat analyst expectations, driven by the China commerce and cloud businesses By Tina Yip

South Africa is currently facing a new wave of infections related to the much higher transmissibility of the omicron COVID variant and its sub-variants. The most recent spike has had similar characteristics as the fourth wave in January 2022: increases in infections have not been accompanied by similar increases spikes…

Being up to date on COVID-19 vaccines means having had three or four doses of the same shot at this point. Current boosters are the same formulations as the first authorized shots, based on the original strain of the coronavirus that emerged in late 2019. They do still protect against…

More than a third of Australians have not received a booster COVID-19 vaccine. This low rate is linked to hospitalisations.

An Omicron sub-variant has fuelled a surge in COVID-19 cases in Portugal that now has the world's second-highest infection rate, potentially threatening the tourism sector's recovery.

In its evolutionary fight for survival, the COVID virus is switching strategies: It’s becoming a master at slipping past our immune systems. And that, say experts, is largely why we’re dealing with an unexpected surge.