Category: Antarctica
Covid-19: Six million deaths recorded in just over two years *1 PREDICTION*
More than six million deaths have been recorded in the Covid-19 pandemic that started just over two years ago.… ...More...
SARS-CoV-2 variant found in Antarctic soil samples from 2018-2019 *1 UPDATE*
“Here we report the bioinformatic analysis of a metagenome sample set collected from soil on King George Island, Antarctica between 2018-12-24 and 2019-01-13.… ...More...
Antarctica: Covid outbreak at an Argentinian research station
There has been a Covid outbreak at an Argentine research base in Antarctica. This is at least the third Covid outbreak in Antarctica that we are aware of.… ...More...
Global case fatality rate drops to its lowest ever level during the pandemic
Finally, some good news on the Covid front. Whilst the world battles its way through a blizzard of Omicron, the lower death rate for the variant has sent the global case fatality rate tumbling to just 1.86%, the lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic.… ...More...
Antarctica: 16 research station workers infected with Covid
A Belgian scientific research station in Antarctica has seen an outbreak of Covid-19 affect two thirds of its workforce, despite workers being fully vaccinated and based in one of the world’s remotest regions.… ...More...
Global winter wave of 2021 is now 50% higher than last year’s winter wave
The current global winter wave is already about 50% higher than last year’s wave, peaking at 14.5 million biweekly cases yesterday.… ...More...
It’s the largest global Covid wave EVER
Driven by the new Omicron variant, the world is now being overwhelmed by the largest global Sars-CoV-2 wave EVER.… ...More...
Five million Covid dead, 250 million infected in less than two years
At least five million people have died, and 250 million have been infected with Sars-Cov-2 in less than two years.… ...More...
October 19th – 23rd could be crucial in determining how bad Covid-19 will be this winter
We have already posted our prediction for the start of the next global Covid-19 wave here, and the October 23rd date we mentioned as being the start of the next wave also seems to be close to an inflexion point for global Covid deaths too.… ...More...
Is Covid-19 on a four monthly global wave cycle?
Sars-CoV-2 global attacks have come in regular four monthly waves in 2021. Will the next wave trough, or CovidMinimum, be on or around 23rd October 2021, with about 5.18 million biweekly infections?… ...More...
32% of world’s population is fully vaccinated, but the global case fatality rate is increasing again
32 percent of the population of the globe has now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but the global case fatality rate has started increasing again – for the first time in four months.… ...More...
WHO: the first substantial decline in global Covid cases in more than two months
With nearly 4 million new cases reported globally in the past week (6-12 September), this represents the first substantial decline in weekly cases in more than two months.… ...More...
WHO: Vaccines won’t save us. We’ll have to learn to live with the virus
The World Health Organization has thrown in the towel and surrendered to Covid. The WHO have finally realised that Covid-19 vaccines aren’t going to save our asses, and they are now recommending that governments around the world learn to live with the virus.… ...More...
4 million coronavirus deaths recorded with no end in sight for the pandemic
The John Hopkins University Covid-19 dashboard is now showing that more than four million people have died in the coronavirus pandemic and 185 millions cases have been recorded.… ...More...