[HTML][HTML] Global emerging Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2: Impacts, challenges and strategies

K Dhama, F Nainu, A Frediansyah, MI Yatoo… - Journal of infection and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Newly emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
are continuously posing high global public health concerns and panic resulting in waves of …

[HTML][HTML] A detailed overview of SARS-CoV-2 omicron: its sub-variants, mutations and pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, immunological landscape, immune …

S Chatterjee, M Bhattacharya, S Nag, K Dhama… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant concern for everyone. Recent data from
many worldwide reports suggest that most infections are caused by the Omicron variant and …

SARS‐CoV‐2 variants and vulnerability at the global level

VP Chavda, AB Patel… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
pandemic have evolved. Viral variants may evolve with harmful susceptibility to the immunity …

[HTML][HTML] Omicron variant (B. 1.1. 529) and its sublineages: What do we know so far amid the emergence of recombinant variants of SARS-CoV-2?

M Dhawan, ARA Saied, S Mitra, FA Alhumaydhi… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been
reported worldwide. The advent of variants of concern (VOCs) raises severe concerns amid …

[HTML][HTML] Sources, diffusion and prediction in COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned to face next health emergency

M Coccia - AIMS Public Health, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Scholars and experts argue that future pandemics and/or epidemics are inevitable events,
and the problem is not whether they will occur, but when a new health emergency will …

The outbreak of SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron lineages, immune escape, and vaccine effectivity

Y Zhou, H Zhi, Y Teng - Journal of medical virology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As of November 2021, several SARS‐CoV‐2 variants appeared and became dominant
epidemic strains in many countries, including five variants of concern (VOCs) Alpha, Beta …

The recently emerged BA. 4 and BA. 5 lineages of Omicron and their global health concerns amid the ongoing wave of COVID-19 pandemic–Correspondence

RK Mohapatra, V Kandi, AK Sarangi… - … Journal of Surgery, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Recently, researchers in South Africa have identified two gamechanging lineages of the
Omicron variant called BA. 4 and BA. 5, reflecting continuous emergence and evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of strict containment policies on COVID-19 pandemic crisis: lessons to cope with next pandemic impacts

M Coccia - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 - Springer
The goal of the study here is to analyze and assess whether strict containment policies to
cope with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crisis are effective interventions …

Update on the omicron sub‐variants BA. 4 and BA. 5

TE Tallei, S Alhumaid, Z AlMusa… - Reviews in medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Several nations have recently begun to relax their public health protocols, particularly
regarding the use of face masks when engaging in outdoor activities. This is because there …

Sensitivity to vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and viral entry inhibitors and advances to counter the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

H Zhou, M Møhlenberg, JC Thakor… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) keeps evolving and
mutating into newer variants over time, which gain higher transmissibility, disease severity …