📍 Detection & Spread - First identified in March–April 2025 at airports in California, Washington, Virginia, and New York - Current hotspots include Ohio, Rhode Island, and Hawaii, with possible spread to Asia - Likely linked to a surge in China before reaching the US
🔬 Characteristics - Sub-lineage of Omicron with higher transmissibility - No evidence of increased severity compared to previous strains - Some regions (Hong Kong, Taiwan) report higher hospitalizations, but mostly due to seasonal trends - Symptoms similar to Omicron
đź’‰ Vaccination & Immunity - FDA requires extensive clinical trials before new vaccines are approved - 95% of US residents have had COVID-19, been vaccinated, or both, ensuring substantial immunity - Nationwide COVID-19 positivity rates have declined by 12%
📍 Detection & Spread - First identified in March–April 2025 at airports in California, Washington, Virginia, and New York - Current hotspots include Ohio, Rhode Island, and Hawaii, with possible spread to Asia - Likely linked to a surge in China before reaching the US
🔬 Characteristics - Sub-lineage of Omicron with higher transmissibility - No evidence of increased severity compared to previous strains - Some regions (Hong Kong, Taiwan) report higher hospitalizations, but mostly due to seasonal trends - Symptoms similar to Omicron
đź’‰ Vaccination & Immunity - FDA requires extensive clinical trials before new vaccines are approved - 95% of US residents have had COVID-19, been vaccinated, or both, ensuring substantial immunity - Nationwide COVID-19 positivity rates have declined by 12%
In many cases, the content resembled that of the marketplaces found on the dark web, a group of hidden websites that are popular among hackers and accessed using specific anonymising software.“We have recently been witnessing a 100 per cent-plus rise in Telegram usage by cybercriminals,” said Tal Samra, cyber threat analyst at Cyberint.The rise in nefarious activity comes as users flocked to the encrypted chat app earlier this year after changes to the privacy policy of Facebook-owned rival WhatsApp prompted many to seek out alternatives.
Telegram announces Search Filters
With the help of the Search Filters option, users can now filter search results by type. They can do that by using the new tabs: Media, Links, Files and others. Searches can be done based on the particular time period like by typing in the date or even “Yesterday”. If users type in the name of a person, group, channel or bot, an extra filter will be applied to the searches.
