搜尋結果
Omicron Covid is a global concern, but what are the variant's known symptoms? And will Covid vaccine booster jabs work against it? The new variant has been dubbed the 'worst one yet'.
- Evelyn Richards
2021年11月27日 · Pharmaceutical firms are racing against the clock to adapt their Covid vaccines after the emergence of highly infectious new variant, Omicron. The strain has been designated a ‘variant of...
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- The Netherlands
- Portugal
- Rest of Europe
- Hong Kong
- South Africa
- Israel
Three cases of Omicron have so far been confirmed in Australia. A South African man in his 30s who flew from Johannesburg to the northern Australian city of Darwin last Thursday was the latest person to test positive for the new variant. It’s after New South Wales state authorities reported on Sunday that two travellers from South Africa to Sydney ...
On Sunday, Canada confirmed its first two cases of the Omicron variant among two people who had recently visited Nigeria. The government of Ontario confirmed that they are now isolating in the capital Ottawa after testing positive. Canada had already banned travel from seven African countries over concerns about the spread of the strain but Nigeria...
French authorities are waiting for laboratory confirmation that eight people who have tested positive for Covid have the new strain. The suspected cases all involve people who travelled recently to southern Africa. The Health Ministry said Sunday night that results could take several days. France has introduced new rules that state all contacts of ...
Dutch authorities have identified at least 13 cases of Omicron among 61 quarantined passengers who tested positive for coronavirus after arriving on a flight from South Africa. The country was already experiencing a fourth wave of cases and has introduced new rules including early closing times for hospitality and cultural venues, and limits on hom...
Portugal detected 13 cases of the Omicron variant on Monday, all involving players and staff members of Lisbon-based football club Belenenses SAD. One squad member, defender Cafu Phete, tested positive for Covid after returning last week from international duty in South Africa. It appears he then infected several other team members, forcing the clu...
Further cases of Omicron have now been confirmed in Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark and Italy. Almost all the cases were among people who had recently travelled to parts of southern Africa where the variant was first identified. In Italy, the National Health Institute said its case had been detected in Milan in a person coming fr...
Hong Kong has so far reported two confirmed cases and one suspected case which were all imported from Africa. The cases come after no infections were reported locally for several weeks. Hong Kong has responded by banning the entry of non-residents who have visited one of eight southern African countries in the past 21 days. Residents arriving from ...
The country where Omicron was first detected could see daily infections treble this week, a top epidemiologist has warned. More than 2,800 infections were reported on Sunday, up from a daily average of 500 in the previous week and 275 the week before – although not all of them have been confirmed as the new strain. ‘We can expect that higher transm...
Israel has introduced some of the strictest measures to contain the spread of the variant in an attempt to protect its highly vaccinated population. The country’s health ministry detected its first case on Sunday in a person who had arrived from Malawi. Other suspected cases are currently being traced, authorities have said. Borders have been close...
2021年12月3日 · There’s plenty of concern that Omicron could ‘spark a major new wave’ of the virus – having already resurrected the travel red list and England’s mandatory mask-wearing rules. But why is it...
- Elizabeth Atkin
2022年1月29日 · A strain of the Omicron coronavirus variant has a greater growth rate than the original version and may be more transmissible, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The BA.2 strain is a...
2021年12月22日 · New evidence has emerged that Omicron causes a less severe disease than previous Covid-19 variants in two new pieces of research which provide a glimmer of hope. Scientists in a Scotland-wide...
2021年12月2日 · A leading scientist involved in the race to fully understand the Omicron variant has warned it appears to be able to reinfect people who have already had Covid-19.
