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Omicron variant

International

US FDA authorises Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s updated Covid shots

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker administers a dose of the "Cominarty" Pfizer-Bivalent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a patient at a vaccination center in Nice as a new surge in the COVID-19 outbreak starts in France, December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo
International

Global Covid cases up 80% as new subvariant rises

Health workers transport a Covid-19 coronavirus patient through the Chongqing No. 5 People's Hospital in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)
International

Omicron subvariants driving China's latest Covid outbreak, says WHO

Vaccine-makers Pfizer and Moderna made presentations on Tuesday about their mRNA candidate vaccines, as did Novavax, about its protein subunit vaccine.
International

US medical experts call for Omicron-specific Covid-19 boosters

People getting their Covid-19 vaccination at Hong Kah North Community Club.
International

More than 12,000 new Covid-19 cases expected, but current wave likely less severe: Ong Ye Kung

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine. BioNTech and partner Pfizer Inc are counting on an Omicron-adapted vaccine to reinvigorate sales for the rest of the year.
Companies & Markets

BioNTech sinks as Covid vaccine sales and profit disappoint

Australian hospital admissions from Covid-19 hovered near the 5,000 level on Thursday but have fallen from the record 5,571 reached a week ago, official data showed.
International

Australia’s winter Covid-19 wave may have peaked early: health minister

Australia is in the grip of a third Omicron wave driven by the highly transmissible new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, with more than 300,000 cases recorded over the past 7 days.
International

Australians urged to work from home as winter Omicron wave swamps hospitals

According to the PEI and the European Medicines Agency, first approvals for updated Covid-19 vaccines could be given in September if the drugmakers prove their superiority over existing vaccines in human trials.
Consumer & Healthcare

BioNTech in conflict with German regulator over new Covid vaccine approval

Covid-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in the first year after they were introduced, according to the first large modelling study on the topic, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
International

Covid-19 vaccines saved 20 million lives in first year: study

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