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Outside of China, many experts have their attention on the US and Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, which has been detected in 29 countries so far. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, said it was “the most transmissible subvariant that has been detected yet.” However there is no indication as yet that XBB.1.5 — which has been spreading rapidly in the northeastern United States — causes more severe disease than other types of Covid. […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – Canada on Thursday authorized an updated Moderna Covid-19 booster shot that specifically targets the Omicron variant and is said to provide significantly better protection against it. In a summary of the decision, Health Canada said clinical trials of the new bivalent vaccine induced significantly higher immune responses than its predecessor against the now dominant Omicron variants. It also matched the older Moderna vaccine’s effectiveness against the original virus, and is recommended […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday recommended Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna targeting the Omicron variant, clearing the way for the administration of the shots. This new generation of anti-Covid vaccines targets both the original strain of coronavirus and the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages, the subvariants of Omicron that are causing the most cases in the United States. The Pfizer-BioNTech shot is […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The UK’s drug regulator said Monday it had approved an updated Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 that targets the Omicron variant as well as the original form of the virus. The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said in a statement said it had approved the vaccine for adult booster doses “after it was found to meet the UK regulator’s standards of safety, quality and effectiveness”. It was the […]
Most already tagged as recovered; DOH reminds public to always wear face masks (Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported the detection of 140 more cases of the highly infectious Omicron variant BA.5, with majority of the cases coming from Region 6 or Western Visayas region. The DOH also reported 20 additional BA.2.12.1 cases, and seven additional BA.4 cases. These two Omicron sub-variants are also highly infectious. In a briefing on Thursday, July 7, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines logged 32 more cases of the transmissible Omicron BA.5 subvariant, the Department of Health said on Wednesday, June 22. According to the DOH, Heath Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire, with the additional cases, the total BA.5 Omicron subvariant cases in the country was now at 43. The DOH said of the new Omicron Ba.5 subvariant cases, 21 came from Western Visayas, four from Calabarzon, four from Metro Manila, and three from […]
6 new BA.5 cases and 10 new BA.2.12.1 cases added to growing number of Omicron cases in PHL (Eagle News) – At least 16 more cases of the more transmissible Omicron subvariants BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 have been recently found in the country. There were six additional cases of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant and two of these came from Metro Manila. At least 10 more additional cases of the Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 which were also […]
(Eagle News) – Ten more cases of the two more transmissible Omicron variant sub-lineages have been detected recently, the Department of Health (DOH) announced on Tuesday, June 7. There were seven more BA2.12.1 cases and three BA.5 cases in the latest sequencing run of 190 samples, where 114 are Omicron cases. “Among the 114 new Omicron cases, additional emerging Omicron sublineages were detected: BA.2.12.1 – 7 cases; BA.5 – 3 cases,” the DOH said. […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines has logged a case of the Omicron subvariant BA.4. According to the Department of Health, the Omicron BA.4, tagged as a variant of concern by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, was detected in a Filipino who flew in from the Middle East on May 4. The DOH said the positive result was based on a test conducted on the Filipino’s specimen on May 8. The Filipino, the DOH said, […]
by Cat Barton and Claire Lee Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea confirmed its first Covid-19 death on Friday, saying fever was spreading “explosively” nationwide and tens of thousands of people were being isolated after falling sick. The insular country only reported its first Covid cases Thursday, saying it was moving into “maximum emergency epidemic prevention system” after sick patients in the capital Pyongyang tested positive for the Omicron variant. […]
DOH says first case also traveled to QC (Eagle News) — The COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12 has been detected in Baguio City, the Department of Health announced on Wednesday, April 27. According to the DOH, the sublineage was detected in a 52-year-old Finnish female who arrived in the country on April 2. The DOH said the patient was not required to undergo routine isolation in a quarantine facility because she was asymptomatic and was fully […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — China reported seven more deaths from Covid-19 in Shanghai on Tuesday, after hundreds of thousands of cases in the metropolis during a weeks-long lockdown. City authorities revealed the first deaths of this outbreak on Monday, with Tuesday’s fatalities bringing the official toll to just 10, even as the virus continues to spread. Beijing insists its zero-Covid policy of hard lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines has averted fatalities and the […]
