The British government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron variant and prevent a new surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, British scientists said Saturday.
Dec 12, 2021
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As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn't had to send anyone to the hospital.
Dec 11, 2021
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South Africa will next month start giving Pfizer booster shots against coronavirus, a health official said Friday, a day after the country reported a near-record high in daily cases of the disease.
Dec 10, 2021
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The emergence of Omicron, a rapidly spreading new strain of COVID-19, a year after the world embarked on mass-vaccinations against the pandemic, has put paid to Nishant Balan's plans to return to the United Arab Emirates ...
Dec 10, 2021
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Harvard experts warn of a "surge upon a surge" in COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks, as cases involving the Omicron variant pile onto the nationwide illness and death the Delta strain has left in its wake in recent ...
Dec 10, 2021
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The Jordanian health ministry announced on Thursday evening it had identified its first two cases of the omicron variant of coronavirus.
Dec 10, 2021
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Access to the laboratory is strictly limited, for the risk of accidental infection is just too high.
Dec 9, 2021
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Cases of coronavirus in Africa nearly doubled over a week as Omicron spread, but hospitalisations in South Africa, where the new variant was discovered, remain low, the UN said Thursday.
Dec 9, 2021
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The EU medicines watchdog said Thursday the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may cause milder disease, as the World Health Organization warned against a re-run of vaccine hoarding by rich nations as the new strain spreads.
Dec 9, 2021
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African governments might have to resort to COVID-19 vaccine mandates if their citizens don't hurry to get the increasingly available doses, the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Dec 9, 2021
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