The naming of the new coronavirus variant Omicron is causing some confusion. Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus ...

The BA.2 variant of coronavirus is doing exactly what researchers predicted it would. After lab tests and real-world surveillance from the onslaught of cases in the United Kingdom, doctors in America ...

Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are named after letters of the Greek alphabet and there is no evidence that the Omicron variant is a cryptic name that means “non-existing”, as claimed in a meme being ...

WHEN THE World Health Organisation (WHO) decided in May 2021 to use the Greek alphabet to name “variants of concern” of SARS-CoV-2, it did so for reasons of simplicity. The first was Alpha, the second ...

The latest menace to the world now has a name: omicron. The World Health Organization has named the new South African COVID-19 variant for the Greek letter, a clear indication experts believe the ...

Just as you might share a last name with your sibling, BA.1 and BA.2 are genetically related and both called by the same Greek letter, omicron. Nevertheless, these two strains are distinct versions of ...

(CNN) — The BA.2 virus — a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant — isn’t just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting ...

In late 2021, on the heels of the deadly Delta wave of infections, a new variant came flying in out of left field—one so highly mutated, so drastically different that it changed the trajectory of the ...

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. The anti-coronavirus vaccine Convasel is equally effective against practically all variants, including Omicron and its subvariants, the chief of the Federal Medical-Biological ...