All news on the topic: Omicron variant

The coronavirus continues to mutate from its earlier strains with a rise in variants dubbed FLiRT by scientists in the US and Europe, as experts monitor vaccine effectiveness on the new strains

New research suggests masks, which initially lowered COVID infection risks, lost its effectiveness by Feb 2022. Omicron's emergence likely impacted this and the findings may extend beyond the UK

Experts have warned the most dominant Covid strain on the planet is now the new JN.1 variant; itself a mutation of Omicron which caused nightmares for people in Christmas 2021

With a new Covid variant JN.1 sweeping the US, many states or big cities are reporting high or very high levels of respiratory illness with more people reporting anxiety as a symptom

Professor Stephen Griffin admitted that Pirola could result in potentially worse versions of Covid and said people were overly concerned about their 'individual risk'

Cases are expected to rise as children go back to class after the summer holidays, and data shows there were 92,965 new daily cases of symptomatic infection on September 1

A new Covid strain dubbed Pirola has hit British shores, it was confirmed today, and the variant may be easily spread due to a huge number of mutations - possibly up to 30

Covid Arcturus, a new omicron coronavirus subvariant, was first detected in January of this year but has since spread to dozens of countries, and five Brits have now died with the strain

Covid XBB.1.16, known commonly as Arcturus, was first detected in January of this year and has since spread across at least 34 countries - and it has a key infection symptom that everyone should be aware of

Covid Arcturus, the new Omicron subvariant, has spread across the globe and already five Brits have died with the strain as it drives case increases abroad

The Arcturus variant is widespread in India and has been found in 29 countries - including the United States. Officials are keeping a close eye on the new variant which is said to be more transmissible

Cases of new Covid subvariant EG.5 have been identified in the UK, and experts have warned it could be the most contagious variant yet. But do you think prevention measures should be reintroduced?

Virus experts have said they 'expect' the Omicron variant XBB.1.5 to emerge in UK. The sub-variant already makes up about four per cent of cases in the UK, but has caused concern in the US where figures are at 40 per cent