Across rural Myanmar, villagers who once volunteered to help stop the spread of COVID-19 are instead fleeing from military crackdowns or joining armed resistance. By FRONTIER As the third wave of COVID-19 spread through Myanmar last year, locals in Hnunsarkyin village in Myaing Township, Magway Region, banded together to try to stem the tide. A group […]
ATLANTA – Georgia’s 7-day average for new COVID-19 cases tops 18,000 for the first time ever this week as the more contagious omicron variant continues to spread, according to data provided by the Georgia Department of Public Health. Monday’s numbers from the GDPH were not available due to data issues, but averaging the cases between […]
Express News Service THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With Omicron set to infect more people in the weeks to come, the state is uniquely placed with having the maximum number of cases of Delta infection, which is at present the most dominant Covid variant. The state faces the simultaneous impact of the waves of Delta and Omicron as seen in […]
Omicron patients experienced severe headache, body pain, tiredness and mild fever unlike the common flu-like symptoms of Covid-19, said Dr Angelique Coetzee, one of the physicians who first flagged the highly mutated strain in South Africa. Dr Coetzee, who has physically seen over 100 Covid positive patients in South Africa infected with the new variant, […]
Dec 11th 2021 T WO WEEKS after the Omicron variant was identified, hospitals are bracing for a covid-19 tsunami. In South Africa, where it has displaced Delta, cases are rising faster than in earlier waves. Each person with Omicron may infect 3-3.5 others. Delta’s most recent rate in the country was 0.8. Listen to this […]
Getty US stock futures looked set to open higher Tuesday as Omicron fears faded, lifting equities. UBS expects Omicron “to blend into the existing Delta wave that the global economy is already working through.” Oil extended gains on Omicron hopes, while bitcoin continued recovering to trade above $50,000. US stock futures jumped Tuesday, on course […]
There were 35,670 suspected reinfections among 2.8 million individuals with positive tests last month. A preliminary study by South African scientists published Thursday suggests the Omicron variant is three times more likely to cause reinfections compared to the Delta or Beta strains. The findings, based on data collected by the country’s health system, provides the […]