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The COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Thailand was the first country to report a case outside China , on 13 January 2020.
The same day, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health confirmed that 50 attendees of a company Christmas party held at a restaurant in Norway's capital, Oslo, were infected with the Omicron variant. [78] France has confirmed only 25 cases of the new Omicron variant but officials say the number could jump significantly in the coming weeks. [79]
On 26 November at an emergency meeting in Geneva, Switzerland WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution designated PANGO lineage B.1.1.529 a variant of concern (VOC) and gave it the designation Omicron (skipping Nu and Xi, the next letters in the Greek alphabet in keeping with its nomenclature protocol introduced for the Delta variant).
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared new data about the rate of spread of the omicron variant in the U.S. CDC director shares update on spread of omicron variant ...
The XEC variant has become the second-most prevalent strain in the country, representing more than 1 in 10 cases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (It ...
BA.2.86 has more than 30 mutations compared to the omicron XBB.1.5 variant, the dominant strain for most of 2023 and the variant targeted in the updated COVID-19 vaccine, TODAY.com previously ...
The CDC and WHO assessed that the "public health risk posed by this variant is low compared with other circulating variants". [23] Moderna and Pfizer have stated that their COVID-19 vaccines targeted at the omicron variant remain effective against BA.2.86 [ 24 ] and Novavax has stated its updated protein-based COVID-19 vaccine appears effective ...
CDC defends Covid isolation guidelines amid omicron variant ... now is to take all the science and the information that we have and to deliver guidance and recommendations to the American people ...