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The Chinese company Sinovac Biotech claimed on Wednesday that a third “booster” shot of its coronavirus vaccine product, “Coronavac,” would “effectively enhance the vaccine’s neutralizing capacity to the Omicron variant.”

San Francisco’s fully vaccinated gyms and offices received a last-minute exemption from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) latest statewide indoor mask mandate.

The UK suffered yet another direct address from the PM Wednesday evening, with Johnson asking the public to get jabbed a third time.

The Chinese government newspaper Global Times claimed in a report on Tuesday that an experimental vaccine product by the small Chinese company CanSinoBIO “can provide a decent level of protection” against the Omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus will start vaccinating kids between the ages of 5 to 11, the government said Monday in fresh bid to head off another COVID-19 surge following the first confirmed cases of the omicron variant on the eastern Mediterranean island nation.

Boris Johnson appeared to issue a veiled threat to citizens that failing to “get boosted” as a matter of urgency could see their “freedoms” and “way of life” taken away in an address to the nation.

Recent data out of South Africa suggests Omicron, a new variant of the Chinese coronavirus, “causes milder disease than Delta,” World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Wednesday.

South African Dr. Angelique Coetzee — who discovered a new variant of “Covid-19,” or the Chinese coronavirus, called Omicron last month in her patients — told the Africa News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday she considered the worldwide bans on travel out of southern Africa following Omicron’s emergence “knee-jerk” and short-sighted, given the lack of information about the strain.

The city of Baltimore on Tuesday announced vaccinated city employees and those who get the jab before January 14 will receive $1,000.

Eighty-two percent of Democrats are willing to wear face coverings indoors at all times upon fears of contracting the omicron coronavirus variant, a Tuesday Axios-Ipsos poll revealed. 

An editorial in the government-owned newspaper Ghanaian Times published Monday accused President Joe Biden and other Western leaders of “mak[ing] Africa their whipping boy” by banning African travelers from entering their countries in response to the discovery of the “Omicron” variant of Chinese coronavirus.

The omicron coronavirus variant has reportedly spread across 17 states, defying President Joe Biden’s promise he would “shut down the virus.”

New York City will mandate the coronavirus vaccine for all private sector employees starting December 27 in an attempt to combat the omicron variant.

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Francis Collins said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that it was “certainly possible” that the Omicron variant will not be the last COVID-19 variant of the pandemic.

Three more cases of the coronavirus omicron variant were reported Saturday in New York, taking the number of state cases linked to the new variant to eight.

New York officials are pitching vaccines as the best way to combat the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus as five cases popped up in the state, yet Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) admitted that they “don’t have specific information on how the vaccines are holding up or the boosters are holding up to this variant.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday admitted that public health officials have yet to prove if vaccines and boosters protect against the Omicron Variant of the Chinese coronavirus but urged people to get vaccinated and boosted anyway, regardless of the current lack of data.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) begged parents to get their children vaccinated “right away,” while New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) instructed parents to also “ensure” that children are masked up as well, making the remarks Thursday during a joint press conference detailing cases of the omicron variant popping up in the Empire State.

The coronavirus omicron variant has reportedly spread coast to coast to at least five states in total.

State and federal officials are refusing to reveal where the first U.S. patient to have been identified with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus traveled en route to California from South Africa, where it is suggested that he or she contracted the virus.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has a plan to save the planet from disaster. It urged countries Friday to step up their drive to vaccinate everyone and stem a coronavirus surge driven by the Omicron variant, adding travel curbs and border controls are not the answer.

The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) was blasted on Twitter after sending a post that thanked President Joe Biden for a two-cent decrease in gas prices, despite gas prices rising more than a dollar under his presidency.

The presidents of Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire joined South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for engagements on Wednesday and Thursday in solidarity following the imposition of a travel ban on that country by President Joe Biden and leaders of European and Middle Eastern states this week.

Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Thursday that residents should assume that the omicron variant of the coronavirus is already present in New York City.

Joe Biden praised Dr. Anthony Fauci during a visit to the National Institutes of Health, praising the scientists for their work on fighting the virus.

COPENHAGEN (AP) – At least 50 people in and around Norway’s capital have been infected with the omicron coronavirus variant and the cases are connected to a Norwegian company’s Christmas party in an Oslo restaurant, officials said Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has come under fire after his office announced his wife and children were going on vacation abroad, contravening the Israeli leader’s recommendations to avoid all travel overseas.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that any public health policy President Joe Biden comes out with on Thursday won’t have any scientific backing since we don’t know how severe the

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday suggested that the definition of “fully vaccinated” could change, only applying to individuals who received a coronavirus booster shot as well. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Wednesday afternoon in the White House briefing room that the first confirmed case of the “Omicron variant” of COVID-19 had been identified in California in an individual who recently returned from South Africa.

The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, discouraged countries on Tuesday from enacting travel bans on African countries that had contributed to identifying the Omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus, which the U.N. agency branded a “variant of concern” last week.

The governments of the Netherlands and Nigeria revealed between Tuesday and Wednesday that they had found evidence of people in their countries testing positive for the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus prior to scientists in South Africa confirming its existence.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said that President Joe Biden’s approach to the Omicron coronavirus variant is “we don’t know that much,” but “we’re going to cause a panic in

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said that coronavirus mandates were for a time when we didn’t have any of the tools to deal with the virus that we

Most Americans believe President Biden is responsible for dividing the American people, a Convention of States/Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found. 

Japan recorded its first case of the coronavirus variant Omicron on Tuesday in a man who arrived in Tokyo from Namibia on Sunday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu told reporters at a press conference.