The Ministry of Health in a statement on Saturday said the increase in the Omicron variant cases had been detected following the genomic sequencing at the Uganda Virus Research Institute.

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is suspected to be the most infectious yet by binding to human receptors better than the Delta variant and the team’s findings show it may have the potential to ...

4 and BA.5 found that it stimulated a greater than five-fold increase in neutralising antibodies against Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, regardless of whether the recipient had been previously ...

The increase has been linked with two new virus strains - Eris and Pirola. According to media reports, both Eris and Pirola ...

While there's no indication the XEC strain will increase the severity of virus, it could potentially become a dominant strain ...

the increase of beds involved hundreds of beds - that was not enough,” he said, noting that the government had not updated its approach to factor in the exponential outbreak of the Omicron ...

Since the end of December 2021, the omicron variant is the predominant ... applied nationally “means that the country can still increase its rate of vaccination and that it is not a losing ...