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An FDA committee felt that a modified vaccine would offer broader protection to match the coronavirus strains that are in circulation now.

More infectious than past strains, these subvariants can also more easily escape antibodies from vaccines and previous infections.

Newly prominent Omicron variants have been found to break through vaccine immunity.

KUCHING: Cases of highly infectious Covid-19 Omicron sub-variants have been detected in Sarawak, with the public urged to remain alert and get their booster shots.

Two Omicron subvariants, which surfaced in early June this year, have threatened the sense of normalcy that had returned to Indonesia in the last couple of ...

News highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (June 9)

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported 6 170 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours.

Two new Omicron sub-variants are driving an increase in reported COVID cases in South Africa, the World Health Organization said, stressing the importance of testing to monitor virus mutations and spread.

Sequencing teams analysing data from positive Covid-19 tests in South Africa have found an increase in the presence of two subvariants of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. This comes as South Africa’s positivity rate jumped from 16% to 19% overnight on Monday.

Two Omicron cases in a nearby city put Beijing on high alert, just weeks before the Winter Olympics ...