Omicron variant

English Alternative forms en omicron variant Omicron Variant Noun - Omicron variant en virology The highly virulent B.1.1.529 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. en omicron omicron strain omicron virus Omicron Omicron strain Omicron virus en BA.1 BA.2 XE en 2021 Kit-San Yuen; Zi-Wei Ye; Sin-Yee Fung; Pak-Hin Hinson Cheung; Chi-Ping, Chan; et al. SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: revisiting the most important research questions Cell & Bioscience 11 1 10.1186/s13578-021-00730-1 It remains to be seen whether the Omicron variant newly identified from South Africa and carrying more than 50 point mutations in the genome, among which more than 30 are in the spike region, might out-compete Delta to become the next predominant strain in the near future. en 2021-11-28 Joseph Spector New York declares state of emergency as COVID surges: Hochul warns omicron variant is likely to arrive The Journal News White Plains, NY A.2 Hochul said the omicron variant that has stoked fears of a new spread across the globe has yet to be found in New York, but warned it is likely to arrive. en 2025-11-26 Stellenbosch professor named among world’s top 1% researchers Cape Argus Cape Town 3 PROFESSOR Tulio de Oliveira, best known locally for being one of the national and international experts fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and placing South Africa on the map for the discovery of the Omicron variant, has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for the second consecutive year (2024-2025) in the Cross-Field category. Hyponyms en Stealth Omicron mul BA.2 Omicron BA.1 Omicron BA.2 Omicron XE<qq:recombinant form from BA.1 and BA.2> mul:XBB Kraken variant mul XBB.1.5 Coordinate terms en Alpha variant Beta variant Gamma variant Delta variant Epsilon variant Zeta variant Eta variant Theta variant Iota variant Kappa variant Lambda variant Mu variant Omega variant Derived terms en deltacron Stealth Omicron Omicron BA.1 Omicron BA.2 Omicron XE Translations strain of the COVID-19 virus Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 奧密克戎毒株 Àomìkèróng dúzhū Finnish: fi omikronmuunnos French: fr variant omicron m German: de Omikron-Variante f Greek: el Japanese: ja オミクロン株 omikuron kabu Korean: ko 오미크론 변이 Portuguese: pt variante ómicron f Romanian: ro variantă omicron f Russian: ru омикро̀н-вариа́нт m Spanish: es variante ómicron f Translingual: mul B.1.1.529 Further reading SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant en Types of coronaviruses COVID-19