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A new variant, named B.1.1.529, was named a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization and given the name “omicron” from the letter in the Greek alphabet.

The world is racing to contain a new coronavirus variant that is potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled waves of infection on nearly every continent

The WHO has said it will take weeks to understand how the new Covid variant, named omicron, may affect diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

The U.S. will speak Friday with scientists in South Africa for data on the emerging, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant detected there, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province.

An advisory panel of the World Health Organization has classified a worrying new COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa as a highly transmissible virus of concern, naming it “Omicron” under its Greek letter system

The World Health Organization will meet on Friday to discuss a new heavily mutated variant of Covid-19.

The World Health Organization is monitoring a new variant with numerous mutations to the spike protein, officials said Thursday.

President Joe Biden said the U.S. has bought 10 million courses of Pfizer’s Covid treatment pill Paxlovid and delivery will start at the end of the year.

The U.S. reported an average of nearly 83,500 new Covid cases every day over the last week, a 14% increase from the week before.

As Europe finds itself at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic once again, experts say it should serve as a “warning” to the U.S. and other countries about the virus’ “unremitting” nature.

The World Health Organization has granted an emergency use license to a coronavirus vaccine developed in India.

Global numbers of Covid cases and deaths have risen for the first time in two months as the virus surges across Europe, WHO officials said Thursday.

The AY.4.2 subvariant has been detected in at least five cases in the U.S.: in Washington, D.C., California, North Carolina, Washington state and Massachusetts.

The World Health Organization has endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease

Some 56 countries fell short of the WHO’s goal of getting 10% of their populations immunized against the virus by the end of September.

The FDA staff declined to take a stance on backing booster shots of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, saying U.S. regulators haven’t verified all the available data.

An expert review of data concludes Covid vaccine boosters are not needed at this time for the general public, a group of U.S. and international scientists said.

Wealthy Chinese exile Guo Wengui is using his online misinformation network to promote the use of unproven treatments for Covid.

Any new virus that emerges has to be able to compete with the “best of class,” and right now that is delta, the WHO’s Dr. Mike Ryan said.