The more trans­mis­si­ble Omi­cron sub­lin­eage BA.2 dubbed "Stealth Omi­cron", ap­pears to be in­creas­ing its pres­ence lo­cal­ly.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 1 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,808. There are cur­rent­ly 156 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 546 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,519. 

BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion says that the num­ber of re­port­ed new COVID-19 cas­es world­wide de­creased by near­ly a quar­ter last week, con­tin­u­ing a de­cline since the end of March.

Mod­er­na hopes to of­fer up­dat­ed COVID-19 boost­ers in the fall that com­bine its orig­i­nal vac­cine with pro­tec­tion against the omi­cron vari­ant. On Tues­day, it re­port­ed a pre­lim­i­nary hint that such an ap­proach might work.

John­son & John­son is sus­pend­ing sales fore­casts for its COVID-19 vac­cine on­ly a few months af­ter say­ing the shot could bring in as much as $3.5 bil­lion this year.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 2 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,794. There are cur­rent­ly 149 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 449 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,359.

Pfiz­er said Thurs­day it wants to ex­pand its COVID-19 boost­er shots to healthy el­e­men­tary-age kids.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 5 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,792. There are cur­rent­ly 155 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 374 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,144.

The Min­istry of Health is rais­ing warn­ing flags about the coun­try's COVID-19 out­break not­ing sev­er­al "con­cern­ing" de­vel­op­ments. It has prompt­ed warn­ings of in­creased vig­i­lance as the coun­try heads in­to the east­er week­end.

NEW YORK (AP) — 2021 was the dead­liest year in U.S. his­to­ry, and new da­ta and re­search are of­fer­ing more in­sights in­to how it got that bad.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 4 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,787. There are cur­rent­ly 149 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 324 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,001.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 3 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,783. There are cur­rent­ly 149 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 125 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,146.