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Covid: Omicron and Delta driving tsunami of cases - WHO
The combination of Delta and Omicron variants is driving a dangerous tsunami of Covid-19 cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' words came as the US ...
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Omicron: How worried should we be?
It has been named Omicron by the World Health Organization, following the pattern of Greek code-names like the Alpha and Delta variants. Omicron has such a long list of mutations that it was ...
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Omicron more likely to reinfect than Delta, no milder -study
The risk of reinfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant is more than five times higher and it has shown no sign of being milder than Delta, a study showed, as cases soar across Europe and ...
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Covid-causing Omicron BF.7 variant highly transmissible but not as severe as Delta variant, say doctors
But the good news is that this variant is not as severe as the Delta variant that dominated ... of pandemic-induced low-key celebrations, a new Omicron variant of Covid-19 – named BF.