Two Omicron News Today

KUALA LUMPUR: Two Omicron variants, namely BA.5.2 and BF.7, which made up about 80% of the Covid-19 variants currently infecting China, have been detected in Malaysia since March 16 and Aug 21 last year, respectively.

KUALA LUMPUR: Two Omicron variants of Covid-19, namely BA.5.2 and BF.7, which made up about 80 per cent of the variants currently infecting China, have been detected in Malaysia since March 16 and Aug 21 last year, respectively.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 ― Two Omicron variants of Covid-19, namely BA.5.2 and BF.7, which made up about 80 per cent of the variants currently infecting China, have been detected...

Both variants consist of 80 percent of Covid-19 cases in China. 

KUCHING: Two Omicron XBB sub-variant of Covid-19 cases had been detected involving a traveller holding a United States passport and an individual who had just returned from performing the umrah.

The UK Health Security Agency has deemed BQ.1 and XBB variant designations due to their rapid growth and fears over their mutations.

Also, Pfizer says its vaccine for younger kids still shows strong efficacy as it prepares to file an EUA for a BA.5/BA.4 booster for kids as young as 6 months.

The CDC said while many East Tennessee counties were at "high" risk for COVID-19, Knox County was still at "medium" risk.

Two Omicron variants of the Covid-19 virus, BA.4 and BA.5, have been detected among the new Covid-19 cases in Cambodia since late last month, the country's Ministry of Health said in a statement on Tuesday.

Two Omicron subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5 — have become the dominant coronavirus strains in the US, causing 52 per cent of cases last week, according to new estimates from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The new and highly transmissible strains have also gained prevalence elsewhere, including in the United Kingdom and Portugal, and many countries are expecting...