Omicron variant

News 02/15/22, 20:10

The pandemic situation in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, has become more serious, and authorities asked citizens not to leave unless necessary. The whole staff of Suzhou Industrial Park and Wuzhong District are nucleic acid tested. Suzhou Children's Hospital and many other hospitals were closed for emergency treatment. The city's primary and ...

News 01/26/22, 17:59

Less than two weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics, as new cases of COVID-19 emerge, Beijing authorities have imposed new containment measures in hopes of containing the latest outbreak. The National Health and Medical Commission reported on Jan. 23 that nine cases of local infectious diseases were found in ...

News 01/26/22, 01:38

The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States surged to the highest level in about 11 months. Forbes citing data from Johns Hopkins University, reported that the seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths hit 2,188 on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, up 23% from a week earlier.  That figure marked the highest ...

News 01/25/22, 04:15

Beijing Olympics organizers announced on Sunday, Jan. 23, that 72 instances of COVID-19 had been verified among almost 2600 Games-related workers who entered China between Jan. 4 and Jan. 22, with no cases among the 171 athletes and team officials who arrived during that time. According to Reuters, Organizers said 39 ...

News 01/24/22, 03:24

The president's chief medical advisor said that a contagious disease variant is likely to hit its highest point within weeks. Anthony Fauci is as "confident as you can be" the Omicron coronavirus (Chinese Communist Party or CCP virus) will plateau in most parts of the United States during mid-February 2022. "Things are ...

U.S. 01/10/22, 12:03

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has tested positive for COVID-19 though she has got a booster shot in the fall, according to her office’s statement released on Sunday night, Jan. 9. “Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test result for COVID-19. She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home,” the statement read. “The ...

News 01/08/22, 06:14

California's health official has decided to maintain the indoor mask mandate till Feb. 15 as the state is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 patients, partly due to the Omicron variant. California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly announced the extension on Wednesday, Jan. 5. Fox News reported that he also urged people to ...

Health 01/05/22, 14:44

A Danish study found that the Omicron variant of coronavirus can evade the vaccinated peoples’ immunity better than the Delta strain. The study was published last week, Reuters reported, which helps explain why Omicron is more contagious than Delta which was the dominating variant before Omicron emerged in November. In their study, ...

News 01/05/22, 04:02

Brian Monahan, the Capitol's attending physician, said Monday that the Capitol COVID-19 testing center's seven-day "positivity rate went from less than 1% to greater than 13%" since November. With the spike in COVID-19 cases, Monahan advised members to shift their focus to telecommuting and for employees to take more extraordinary precautions. ...

News 01/05/22, 00:48

The daily number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is surging to nearly 1 million despite the Biden administration’s vaccination push as the Omicron variant keeps spreading in the country. A total of 978,856 new cases was reported in the U.S. on Monday Jan. 3, according to Reuters data, nearly doubling ...

News 01/03/22, 21:23

Newark Superintendent Roger León wrote in a notice to parents before the break, "Change is the only thing in this fight." He announced Thursday that students would be learning remotely for at least the first two weeks of the new year. The virus continues, León said, "to be a brutal, ...

News 01/02/22, 17:26

The increase in COVID-19 cases affects people's lives all around the U.S. Experts warn of a COVID-19 rise in the U.S. as the Omicron form explodes at an unprecedented rate. As of Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, according to the most recent data from Johns Hopkins University, there are more than 386,000 new ...

U.S. 01/01/22, 14:22

On Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., referred to "irrational hysteria" about the increase in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant. Rubio's comments came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more than 75,900 new COVID-19 cases in Florida on the same day. "Record numbers testing ...

U.S. 12/31/21, 21:27

The National Public Health Agency was recently scrutinized for its new guideline on reducing the isolation period for persons with COVID who have not had symptoms in five to ten days on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. After the five days, people in quarantine will not need to be tested to ...

Trending 12/31/21, 07:19

On Thursday, Dec. 30, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised people to avoid cruise ship traveling "regardless of vaccination status". The CDC issued a warning after a recent spike in the number of positive Covid cases onboard ships as the highly contagious Omicron variant swept the globe. CDC ...

Europe 12/30/21, 20:19

People in France are getting COVID-19 infections at an unprecedented rate, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday, Dec. 29. In 24 hours, there have been 208,000 cases, which is a record for both France and Europe. Since January 3, people who can work from home must do so at least ...

China 12/28/21, 19:52

Tulio de Oliveira, a scientist who was among the first to warn of the worldwide spread of the Omicron variant, said that China's zero-Covid measure would not work. The new warning came on Dec. 25 after the rigor in epidemic prevention in Xi'an city, Shaanxi province, China, is estimated to be close to the ...

U.S. 12/27/21, 21:42

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday, Dec. 27, updated its isolation guidance for COVID-19 infected patients in which it shortens the recommended quarantine period by half. The new guidance calls for five days of isolation instead of ten days as before, followed by five days of wearing a mask ...

News 12/22/21, 04:37

European countries are set to shut down Christmas due to the rise of the Omicron variant. Countries across Europe are making unprecedented efforts to combat a new wave of COVID-19 infections triggered by Omicron's highly transmissible version. From Sunday, Dec. 19, all schools, universities, non-essential shops, pubs, and restaurants in Holland will ...

New York 12/22/21, 03:23

According to an internal message sent to CNN staff, the network will close its offices to most of its employees due to COVID-19 cases increase. The network, part of the WarnerMedia division of AT&T Inc (T.N), said on Saturday, Dec. 18, that the request is in place for all non-essential personnel. "We ...