"coronavirus variants"

Thailand is among 49 countries that have been hit by the five Covid-19 variants of concern, namely Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron, a Chulalongkorn University lecturer said on Saturday.

A Thai man who recently returned from Congo may be Thailand’s fourth Omicron case, the Public Health Ministry said on Sunday, adding that no infections have been found among people who may have been in contact with the patients.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, scientists worldwide have been looking for drugs to treat COVID-19 successfully. As variants of the virus have emerged to challenge the vaccines effects, Chinese drug researchers and developers try to find the right medicine to beat the virus.

Seven construction workers in Bangkok have been simultaneously infected with two variants of Covid-19, health authorities reported on Monday.

New Covid-19 cases in Thailand have been rising by 3,000 to 4,000 per day, driven mainly by the highly transmissible Delta variant.

Thailand’s well-known virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan on Wednesday urged the government to inoculate as many people as possible to prevent an outbreak of the Covid-19 Delta strain.

LONDON - June 21 was supposed to mark Englands "freedom day," when the countrys remaining coronavirus restrictions would end, but the government has opted to keep them in place at least through July 19 due to concern over rising cases and a fast-spreading variant.

The coronavirus variant labeled "delta" was first recorded in India, where a slow vaccination drive and complacency about pandemic rules helped spark a record-breaking covid-19 surge this spring.

WASHINGTON - A coronavirus vaccine made by Maryland biotech company Novavax proved effective at stopping infections in global hot spots where concerning variants are dominant, the company announced Thursday. But warning signs lurked amid those findings: The protective effect of the vaccine was substantially muted in South Africa, where a worrisome virus variant is in wide circulation.

Wear your mask is becoming wear your masks.

European leaders, struggling with a slow vaccination effort and fearful that highly contagious coronavirus variants could rapidly overwhelm their medical systems, moved Thursday to begin reimposing border restrictions and to speed the distribution of vaccines - even those not yet been approved for use.