There are two new subvariants of the Covid variant Omicron – causing Covid cases to rise (Picture: Getty) Covid-19 case numbers are rising again, in part due to two Omicron subvariants – BA4 and BA5.

Pointing out that COVID-19 hospitalizations and outpatients have tripled in recent days in the country, he said that the probability of increasing transmission during the next week is relatively high.

(WTNH) – In today’s health headlines, BA4 and BA5 variants are here. Will they cause a new wave of COVID? Plus, new information on the unvaccinated and COVID death. Dr. F. Perry Wilson, Yale Medicine ...

The Director of the West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), has disclosed that the new omicron Covid-19 variant, BA4 and BA5 are more infectious as compared to the ...

Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous Covid-19 infection and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to new data ...

Meanwhile, fresh cases crossed the 400-mark after February 27 when cases were on the decline after the Omicron-fuelled third wave. Director of public health Dr T S Selvavinayagam said this time BA4 ...

Hyderabad: After India’s first case of the BA4 variant was detected in Hyderabad, experts say that this was similar to the BA2 variant and is unlikely to cause another wave here. The BA4 variant, ...

Apart from the 12 BA.4 and BA.5 samples, the remaining samples (150) were detected to be of BA1 and BA2 variants.(HT_PRINT) As many as 12 people have been found to be infected with Omicron BA4 and BA5 ...

New Omicron variants BA4 and BA5 were detected from the samples collected in Tamil Nadu and the results from a lab in Hyderabad have revealed it, Tamil Nadu's minister for health Ma Subramanian said ...

Referring to emergence of COVID-19 clusters in educational institutions, he said the virus spread at IIT-Madras, Sathya Sai University, Poonamallee, were largely 'contained' while 23 COVID-19 positive ...