Over 20 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is set to face another hurdle in moving past the virus: the omicron variant. Doctors in South Africa last week discovered omicron, but the mutation ...

A new and potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant first identified by South African scientists has prompted a fresh round of travel restrictions across the world and raised concern about ...

The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By Carl Zimmer By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged ...

Right now, we suspect this new variant is more transmissible, but that needs to be confirmed. Also, we have no idea about the severity of disease that Omicron causes. This is something we may get more ...