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A sub-variant of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus strain, which some studies indicate could be even more infectious than the original version, has been detected in 57 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
The risk level related to the Omicron variant remains very high, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late Tuesday.
The coronavirus pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization chief said on Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the fast-spreading Omicron variant is risk-free.
Omicron still poses ‘very high’ risk and could overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO warned on Wednesday, as the highly transmissible coronavirus variant fuelled record outbreaks in many countries.
The Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the Delta strain and reduces vaccine efficacy but causes less severe symptoms according to early data, the World Health Organization said on Sunday.
The Omicron variant has been reported in 57 nations and the number of patients needing hospitalization is likely to rise as it spreads, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said on Friday, as authorities worldwide rushed to stem the heavily mutated COVID-19 strain’s spread amid warnings that it could damage the global economic recovery.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday the new COVID-19 Omicron variant poses a ‘very high’ risk globally, despite uncertainties about the danger and contagion levels of the new strain.
The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of COVID-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron.
Global authorities reacted with alarm on Friday to a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa, with the EU and Britain among those tightening border controls as researchers sought to find out if the mutation was vaccine-resistant.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says coronavirus deaths in Europe rose 5 percent in the last week, making it the only region in the world where COVID-19 deaths increased.
The rising number of cases of COVID-19 in Europe is of ‘grave concern’ and the region could see another half a million deaths by early next year, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.
School students, between 12-17 years of age, will be vaccinated with Pfizer COVID-19 jabs at the Colonel Malek Medical College Hospital in Manikganj on Thursday.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque said that 20 percent people will be vaccinated by December this year under COVAX facilities.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the synthetic antibody treatment Regeneron for COVID-19, but only in patients with specific health profiles.
The UN is convening an aid conference in Geneva on Monday in an effort to raise more than $600 million for Afghanistan, warning of a humanitarian crisis there following the Taliban takeover.
The vaccination program for the students aged between 12 and 17 years will be started after getting approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Technical Committee for COVID-19.
The World Health Organization on Monday blasted the growing gap between the number of coronavirus vaccines administered in rich and poor countries, branding the inequity a global ‘moral outrage’.
Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) on Friday approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, voicing confidence in it even as a raft of countries suspended its use.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday granted the Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
