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Although current Covid vaccines provide a high level of protection against severe disease and death caused by variants of concern (VOC), health experts believe that new vaccines that can prevent infection and transmission are needed.

Data and what we have already seen in south africa is that because certain characteristics of omicron including the fact that it may have a shorter period of time over which someone becomes infectious, that may lead to a much faster and steeper peak, but a shorter wave overall and perhaps even a peak at lower levels than we might have feared. thats promising knees, as is as you have alluded to their is a smaller percentage on cases where we require hospitalisations as we are seeing with other va...

Amid concerns arising out of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region on Thursday said that Omicron appears to be spreading faster than any other previous variant and added that one should not dismiss it as mild.

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In a new study by Yales Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, it was found that intranasal vaccination provided broad-based protection against heterologous respiratory viruses in mice.

A combination of vaccination and naturally acquired infection appears to boost the production of maximally potent antibodies against the Covid-19 virus, new research finds.

Geneva - The Omicron variant appears to be no worse than other coronavirus strains, top scientists from the WHO and the United States told AFP, while cautioning that more research is needed to judge its severity.The hopeful assessments came as global concern grew over the heavily mutated variant, which has forced dozens of nations to re-impose border...

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As yet another new Sars-CoV-2 variant emerges and begins to spread — one with a worryingly large set of mutations that may make the virus more capable of evading our immune defences — we are all being forced to reassess the strategies we have come to rely on for protection.In many countries, like the United States, vaccines have been viewed as the...

As the Omicron variant has been detected in several countries, Singapores Ministry of Health said that there is no evidence yet to suggest if the Omicron variant is more severe than other variants.