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Euro Pound (EUR/GBP) Exchange Rate Slides on Omicron Study Data The Euro Pound exchange rate has plunged today as rising optimism that the Omicron variant

Omicron may have lower risk of hospitalisation compared to Delta, study reveals - A new study shows that the risk of hospitalisation may be lower when it comes to Omicron, as compared to the Delta variant.

Despite having three mutations that were predicted to favour the spike cleavage, the researchers found the Omicron spike protein to be less efficient than the Delta spike at cleaving the ACE2 receptor and entering the lung cells.

Study finds that novel Omicron variant replicates faster than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and Delta variant in the human bronchus. At 24-hours after infection, the Omicron variant replicated around 70 times higher than the Delta variant and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus.

A full course of Pfizers treatment is three pills taken twice daily for five days. Two of the pills are an experimental antiviral called nirmatrelvir, the third pill is an existing HIV drug called ritonavir.

Omicron spreads more in respiratory airways than lungs, finds study - The study also found that Omicron infects 70 times faster than earlier COVID-19 variants but concluded that it may cause less severe illness.

DNA Explainer: How effective are COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron? - The researchers saw a roughly 30-fold drop in neutralising antibodies against Omicron after two doses of Pfizer vaccine compared with Delta strain.

The findings, published in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infection, also suggest that although a third-dose of vaccines can “significantly boost immunity, the protection from Omicron may be compromised.

Omicron four times more transmissible than Delta variant, says new study - A new study from Japan suggests that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is four times more transmissible than the Delta variant of the virus.