omicron
By Shrey Banerjee
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By Nidhi Jacob COVID-19 cases are increasing in countries such as the United Kingdom, United States and Japan. The recent COVID sub-variant called 'Eris' is reportedly spreading in the UK. However, medical experts BOOM spoke to stressed that it is unlikely to cause a large wave in India. What is Eris & how is it affecting UK? Eris is the unofficial nickname given to the most recent version of omicron, it belongs to the recently seen recombinant XBB sub lineage. It’s official name is EG.5.1. Eris is now responsible for one in seven cases in the UK, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UK...
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By BOOM Team Several European countries have sounded alert over the new Omicron subvariant that has caused a spike in Covid-19 cases in the US since the last month. On Friday, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said over 27% of Covid-19 cases in the United States were now caused by Omicron XBB.1.5, a highly contagious subvariant. In the last week of December 2022, the subvariant constituted over 40% of the Covid-19 cases in the US. Expressing concern over the new variant, Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach said that Berlin was closely monitoring the situation. "Hopefully we g...
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By The Conversation Manal Mohammed , University of Westminster Since the COVID variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7, has recently been identified as the main variant spreading in Beijing, and is contributing to a wider surge of COVID infections in China. But what is this new variant, and should we be worried? Although reports from China about this variant's characteristics are concerning, it doesn't appear to be growing too much elsewhere in the world. Here's what we know. BF.7, short for BA.5.2.1.7, is a sub-lineage of th...
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Washington (AFP) - Pfizer and BioNTech have asked United States health officials to authorize their Omicron-targeting Covid booster vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, the companies said Monday. The companies sent a request for emergency authorization for a 10-microgram dose to the US Food and Drug Administration. 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 more than 90% of infections in the United States. If the FDA authorizes the vaccine, the shot will still need another...
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Washington (AFP) - Barring the emergence of drastically different variants, Covid boosters will likely be recommended annually in a similar manner to influenza vaccines, US health officials said Tuesday. The announcement came after the Food and Drug Administration last week authorized updated bivalent shots against both the original strain of the coronavirus and the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the Omicron variant, which are predominant. "We likely are moving towards a path with a vaccination cadence similar to that of the annual influenza vaccine, with annual updated Covid-19 shots matched to th...
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By Mohammed Kudrati The Indian economy grew 8.4% in the previous financial year ending March 31 this year, and 4.1% in last quarter (Q4) of the financial year (January to March 2022), data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) shows. These numbers are largely in line with expectations. A Reuters polls of 46 economists put the quarterly growth at 4%, while the second advanced estimate of MOSPI projected the growth to be 8.9% for the previous year. However, this also is the third consecutive quarter of slowing growth. In the second quarter, growth came in at...
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The U.S. Economy had a strong recovery from the Covid mayhem by the end of 2021 as the gross domestic product grew 5.7%. This is the fastest growth rate since 1984, when Ronald Reagan was president, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday. Q4 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more U.S. Economy Bounces BackAs reported by CNN Business, the economy of the U.S. had a solid year as growth capped 5.7%, with the last three months of 2021 beating analysts’ predictions by hitting 6.9% in terms of GDP annualized rate. This last passage represents a great improvement from the thir...
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Washington (AFP) - Covid-19 vaccines and boosters continued to have very high efficacy against severe outcomes during the Omicron wave of the virus, a large real-world study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed Friday. The paper evaluated data from more than 300,000 visits to emergency departments, urgent care clinics, and hospitalizations across 10 states from August 26, 2021 to January 5, 2022. During the period when the Delta variant was dominant, vaccine efficacy against Covid-19 hospitalization was 90 percent between 14-179 days after dose two of a vaccine, ...
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Washington (AFP) - A preliminary US study of nearly 70,000 Covid positive people showed a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization and death from Omicron even after controlling for growing population immunity levels. People infected with Omicron were half as likely to be hospitalized, about 75 percent less likely to need intensive care, and around 90 percent less likely to die compared to those infected with the formerly dominant Delta variant, according to the paper. Of some 52,000 people infected with Omicron, none ended up on a ventilator, compared to 11 people from nearly 17,000 with ...
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