Online desk: The scientists of South Africa published a preliminary study on Thursday where it said the Omicron variant is three times more likely to cause reinfections compared to the Delta or Beta strains. The ...

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said his company has already begun testing a new vaccine formula specifically targeted at the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Photo: AFP/File Pfizer has already started working on a version of its ...

International desk:  South African doctor who was one of the first to suspect a different coronavirus strain among patients said on Sunday that symptoms of the Omicron variant were so far mild and could be ...

The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling ...