OMICRON

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on China to offer greater transparency regarding the origins of Covid-19

The variant is causing about 17 per cent of the new Covid-19 cases in the country compared to 16 per cent for the next most common lineage.

The Ministry of Health and Population has stated that coronavirus infection is increasing in Nepal due to the seasonal cold.

Around one million children, above five years of age, have not received even a single dose of the vaccine in Nepal, citing the country's Ministry of Health and Population.

The first batch of Pfizer's new vaccine, Bivalent, which is said to work in controlling Omicron, has arrived in Kathmandu.

The government has said that Pfizer's new vaccine (bivalent vaccine), for Omicron, will arrive in Nepal in the week following February 13.

As many as 40 per cent of the Chinese population was infected by COVID-19 over the past month amid the rising number of cases in the country.

India reported 2,582 cases, fresh Covid cases and 222 recoveries in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs.

According to the joint spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr. Sameer Kumar Adhikari, the sub-variant of Omicron'XBB' has been identified in Nepal.

Researchers analyzed the structures of the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant and its receptor.