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ATLANTA — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a COVID-19 shot specifically targeting the BA.5 variant, which is responsible for 90% of all cases.Two versions of the booster, one Moderna and one Pfizer for people ages 12 and up…

The next generation of COVID-19 booster shots — tailored specifically to combat the super-infectious family of Omicron subvariants — could roll out early next month. The long-in-the-works offering would mark an ambitious new phase in the…

"An updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna that targets two coronavirus variants (known as a "bivalent" vaccine) has today been approved for adult booster doses by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency…

The UK appears to have just seen off its fifth wave of Covid-19 infections, although experts continue to fear that another could arrive this autumn once the weather turns unless proper precautions are taken.The country saw a 43 per cent…

The United States is in the midst of another coronavirus surge, this time thanks to the Omicron subvariant BA.5. Scientists warn that the new subvariant appears to be the virus’s most transmissible version to date, and it is reinfecting…

New Jersey on Saturday reported another 2,993 confirmed COVID-19 positive tests and seven confirmed deaths as cases continue to climb with omicron’s subvariant BA.5.The subvariant spreads rapidly. The Centers for Disease Control and…

The latest subvariant of the novel-coronavirus is spreading fast. And the federal government is struggling to keep up. There’s a lot the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can do to slow the BA.5…

Summer travel is booming, and while most pandemic-era restrictions in airports are gone, the coronavirus has more surprises in store.BA.5, the latest subvariant of omicron, is spreading rapidly, becoming the dominant variant in the…

A new sub-variant of the omicron variant of COVID-19, known as BA.5, has been discovered in the U.S. and several other countries.It is both spreading fast and is highly transmissible.Here is what you need to know about this emerging…

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevailing theory was that if someone was infected with the virus, they were immune -- at least for a while.But a growing number of Americans seem to be contracting the virus more than once.A recent…