The local group, known as the Staffordshire Resilience Forum, said the "recent surge in Coronavirus cases related to the Omicron variant" had led to the decision. Dr Richard Harling, director for ...

XEC is a hybrid of two JN.1 variants, which was the Omicron subvariant that accounted for most cases during last winter’s surge, according to the CDC. Agency data shows that the XEC variant has ...

But unlike nine months ago, when the Delta variant was spreading through a mostly unvaccinated population, now millions of factory workers have been fully vaccinated and the Omicron variant is ...

As Japan marks five years on Wednesday since its first confirmed case of COVID-19, government data show that over 70 million ...

It said authorities have also confirmed 12 more cases of the Omicron variant ... and a 9 p.m. curfew on restaurants and cafes. The surge has threatened to overwhelm hospitals and was straining ...