According to the experts, on January 13, China's daily COVID numbers are likely to ... COVID waves which will mostly get triggered by Omicron subvariants. The massive COVID resurgence in China ...

A new study by Chinese researchers supports the theory that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus may have originated from mice. The study said there was strong evidence that the virus had passed ...

A preliminary study by South African scientists published Thursday suggests the Omicron variant is three times more likely to cause reinfections compared to the Delta or Beta strains. The findings ...

Sha Hua is a former reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Singapore bureau, where she covered China's climate, energy and science policy as well as China-Europe relations.

Zhao stated, “I believe it [omicron] will definitely pose some challenge to our efforts to prevent and control the virus, but as China has experience in preventing and controlling the ...

Hong Kong authorities confirmed 140 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, the most in a single day in 18 months, as they battled to contain a spiralling outbreak at the Omicron-hit Kwai Chung Estate.

The fast-spreading Omicron variant is now the main coronavirus strain in the United States, accounting for 73.2 per cent of new cases over the past week for which data is available, health ...

Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday.

From the end of the fourth wave last April, Hong Kong had mostly seen imported infections, and daily caseloads were ... with the highly transmissive Omicron variant during her hotel quarantine.

Beginning February 5, Hong Kong will shorten its 21-day quarantine requirement for incoming travellers to two weeks, given the much shorter incubation period of the Omicron variant, the city’s ...

The latest strains came as Hong Kong authorities clung firmly to their “dynamic zero” coronavirus strategy which, like mainland China’s seeks ... the manpower for daily operations ...

Lam explained the measures were vital for preventing imported cases – especially infections carrying the highly transmissive Omicron variant – from spreading further in the community and to ...