The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

This will provide early warning on impending local surge of COVID-19

A modified coronavirus vaccine that targets the Omicron variant can be administered as a booster dose to broaden immunity, a technical advisory group set up the World Health Organization said on Friday. Such a variant-adapted vaccine may benefit those who have already received the primary series of shots, the agency's…

The FDA has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE's (NASDAQ:BNTX) COVID-19 Vaccine as a three 3-µg dose series for children six months through 4 years of age.  Based on safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity data, the 3-µg dose was carefully selected as the preferred dose for children under five. The EUA…

Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 thought to be responsible for sudden increase, but Jubilee celebrations ‘would certainly not have helped’

Professor Linda Bauld, from Edinburgh University, was speaking as the latest figures showed the number of Scots believed to have Covid increased to one in 30 last week - up from one in 40 the previous week

New data shows the number of acute respiratory infection incidents (suspected outbreaks of the virus) had risen by almost 100 in a week

The Office for National Statistics says it's too early to say for certain if this is the start of a new wave

ONS figures show pandemic is not over, say experts, with Omicron variants probably to blame

Prevalence of the virus remains well below the record high reached in the spring.

Figures remain well below their record high of 4.9m in March

Covid levels have risen in all four nations of the UK amid the spread of the Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.