Now it's more than 10,000 with Omicron seemingly the driving force behind their fourth wave. The UK has seen Omicron spreading ... But then came the good news. Experiments by Pfizer-BioNTech ...

Mr Johnson gave his update in a TV statement on Sunday evening, just hours after the UK's Covid alert level was raised to four due to the spread of the new Omicron ... the good news is that ...

The UK has become the first country in the world to authorise an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine directed at the Omicron variant, giving a green light to Moderna's mRNA-1273.214 shot.

UK researchers have analysed the likely impact that a Covid booster shot will have on Omicron and say it could provide around 85% protection against severe illness. The protection is a bit less ...

Two new fast-spreading subvariants of Omicron are causing fresh surges of Covid around the world. BA.4 and BA.5 were first identified in South Africa and may soon become the dominant strains in ...

The UK has become the first ... positive for coronavirus. Moderna's latest vaccine - called Spikevax - targets both the original strain and the first Omicron variant (BA.1), which emerged last ...

The XEC COVID-19 variant is poised to become the dominant variant worldwide. Now is a good time to get an updated COVID ...

Over the last few years, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, has undergone significant changes, evolving from the original wild-type strains to the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

The XBB.1.5 subvariant — nicknamed ‘Kraken’ — is arguably the most genetically rich and most transmissible SARS-CoV-2 omicron subvariant yet. News Wrap: Russia shells Bakhmut in eastern ...

A new Covid-19 variant has been spreading throughout Europe, and now, according to the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA), ...

A new variant of COVID called XEC — a combination of two Omicron subvariants — is spreading in the middle of flu season.

The latest strain, identified as the COVID-19 XEC ... This has been observed before in previous variants, including Delta and ...