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India-UK trade pact: Work in progress to resolve pending issues
"The teams have made good progress and work is in progress in resolving pending issues. Chapter…
PTI
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The coronavirus subvariant surging in Europe is a more-contagious type of Omicron which experts fear could soon take over in the US
The BA.2 subvariant is causing a new wave of infections in Europe, and already makes up about 23% o…
Marianne Guenot
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Scientists found a 2nd type of Omicron that's harder to track since tests struggle to distinguish it from other variants
The BA.2 lineage of Omicron doesn't have the "S-gene dropout" that made the first lineage of Omicro…
Marianne Guenot
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Senior UK politician warns people to avoid 'snogging under the mistletoe' over the holidays as Omicron raises fears of uncontrolled spread
Thérèse Coffey, the UK's work and pensions secretary, said kissing 'people you don't already know' …
Marianne Guenot
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Multiple sclerosis is more common among white Europeans. Researchers studying ancient DNA may have figured out why.
Researchers studying ancient DNA linked genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis with Yamnaya h…
Jenny McGrath
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Omicron spread about 70 times quicker than Delta in human bronchial samples, a lab study found
Scientists at the University of Hong Kong compared Omicron's behavior in tissue samples to that of …
Marianne Guenot
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Vaccines could still protect against Omicron via powerful 'T cells' that are hard to measure but prevent severe illness and death
Omicron seems better at dodging antibodies from two doses of vaccine. But vaccines could still prot…
Marianne Guenot
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A 'large wave' of Omicron cases and hospitalizations is coming to the US, Biden official tells Axios
The Omicron variant appears to be more infectious, which could mean more people ending up severely …
Sinéad Baker
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Europe's medicine agency says Omicron cases appear mild, echoing the US CDC
"Cases appear to be mostly mild," but more research is needed, a European Medincines Agency officia…
Sinéad Baker
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One person in the UK has died with the Omicron variant, Boris Johnson says
Johnson did not give any details about the person, including whether or not they had been vaccinate…
Sinéad Baker
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Only 1 in 43 known Omicron cases in the US has been hospitalized, CDC says. Almost all the rest had mild symptoms like coughing and fatigue.
Most of these cases were in vaccinated people so it is too soon to know how severe the variant is a…
Marianne Guenot
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COVID cases in South Africa spiked 400% in a week in the wake of Omicron being found there
Cases are rising at a record rate, and Omicron appears to be dominant in most provinces, President …
Marianne Guenot
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64 of 150 guests tested positive for Omicron after a high school lunch in Denmark, the latest in a string of spreading events
The event was in the Viborg region of Denmark and involved several different high schools, local re…
Marianne Guenot
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Two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant found in the UK connected to 'travel to southern Africa,' official says
The cases of the variant were linked and were connected to 'travel to southern Africa,' the secreta…
Connor Perrett
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Omicron-variant cases have been found in New York and LA, officials say
Officials in New York urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear masks but said not t…
Sinéad Baker
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Here are all the mutations in the Omicron variant and why they are scaring scientists
The Omicron variant has an unprecedented combination of mutations. Many of those mutations are comp…
Marianne Guenot
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A couple who visited South Africa were arrested for escaping their quarantine hotel in the Netherlands and trying to flee the country
The couple were quarantining in a hotel near Amsterdam alongside at least 13 people who had the Omi…
Bill Bostock
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WHO slams countries for putting travel bans on southern Africa, saying it 'attacks global solidarity'
Countries put travel bans on multiple southern African nations after the Omicron coronavirus varian…
Sinéad Baker
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Canada records North America's first 2 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant
They were found in two people who had recently traveled to Nigeria and tested positive in Ottawa, h…
Bill Bostock
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Fauci says there is no indication the new coronavirus variant found in southern Africa is in the US
Fauci told CNN's "New Day" on Friday there is concern over "possibly transmissibility increase and …