A study led by Japanese researchers says that the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron is more serious and contagious, and may even reach the lungs. Scientists from the universities of Tokyo, Kumamoto, Hokkaido and Kyoto, in Japan, cited by news at the minute classify this strain 'of concern'. According to the study, published in the BioRxiv platform and that still...
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Covid-19. Marriage of delta and omicron creates highly severe "deltacron" variant
Researchers on Sunday detected the occurrence of covid-19 symptoms associated with two variants of the disease, delta and omicron, mostly in hospitalized patients, and it is already being called "deltacron." Since the relative frequency of the combined infection is higher among hospitalized patients than among non-hospitalized patients, there is a greater chance of se...
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Covid-19: Omicron dodges vaccines better than delta
The omicron variant of covid-19 circumvents immunity in vaccinated people better than delta, according to the conclusion of a Danish study published late last year, and this finding opens a window to explain why the new strain is easier to spread. The researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Statistics...
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Covid-19. Omicron variant may replace delta, suggests new study
A study by South African researchers suggests that omicron may replace the delta variant because infection with the new variant boosts immunity to the older variant. The work found that people infected with omicron, especially those who were vaccinated, developed enhanced immunity to the delta variant. The analysis covered 33 vaccinated people...
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Covid-19: cases are on the rise. The "culprit" variant is not omicron
Cases of covid-19 infection are tending to increase to worrying levels around the world, as has been reported in recent days. Fact is, this coincides not only with the lifting of restrictions, which by far may be the main reason, but also with the announcement of the discovery of the omicron variant, of...
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Covid-19: See the first comparative image of the omicron and delta variant
A team of researchers from the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, Italy, has sought to map mutations in the omicron variant of Sars-Cov-2 and compare it to existing images of the delta variant. What is already known is that the omicron variant has a higher number of mutations - about 30,000 - than the others, but, as...