Category: Asia
Asian Coronavirus News
Preprint: Enhanced Fusogenicity of BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1
“We found that the new Omicron subvariants BA.4/5 and BA.2.12.1 were more resistant to neutralization by mRNA-vaccinated and boosted health care worker sera and Omicron-BA.1-wave patient sera than were the BA.1 and BA.2 variants.”… ...More...
North Korea: Latest update on Covid situation
“About 1,349,000 people have entered the sanitation propaganda, inspection, and treatment business, and all people with fever and abnormal symptoms are found and thoroughly isolated and treated.”… ...More...
North Korea: 350,000 Covid cases in two weeks *1 update*
North Korea reported the first death from COVID-19 today and said more than 350,000 people got fever* since late April as COVID-19 “explosively spread nationwide.”… ...More...
Japan: Ties between Omicron variant and severe hepatitis in children
Infection with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may have a role in recent cases of severe acute hepatitis in children, according to new research presented at a health ministry panel meeting Wednesday 11th May 2022.… ...More...
North Korea: Total lockdown announced as Omicron BA.2 identified in Pyongyang
North Korea has announced its first ever Covid-19 cases. The Omicron variant has been identified.
According to the North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), samples collected from fever-ridden patients on Sunday in Pyongyang were identical to omicron.… ...More...
WHO: China’s zero-Covid strategy is unsustainable *1 update*
China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.… ...More...
Vietnam: Severe liver and brain damage in child after Covid-19 infection
A 13-year-old boy just recovered from Covid-19 suddenly returned to fever, red skin, red eyes, the doctor diagnosed multi-system inflammatory syndrome, brain damage.… ...More...
Israel: The next Covid wave could be Delta
There is a real danger of another international COVID wave this summer, with the Delta variant possibly poised to make a comeback, new Israeli research suggests.… ...More...
WHO: 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19
New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million). … ...More...
Japan: New BA.1/BA.2 recombinant discovered
Japanese researchers have detected a new type of the Omicron variant which is a recombination of the BA.1 and more contagious BA.2 strains of the Omicron.… ...More...
2020 research: Hepatitis is common in children with Covid-19 MIS-C
“Hepatitis is common in children with MIS-C and is associated with a more severe presentation and persistent elevation of LFTs in many.”… ...More...
Long Covid: 49% of COVID-19 survivors have persistent symptoms
Worldwide, 49% of COVID-19 survivors reported persistent symptoms 4 months after diagnosis, estimates a meta-analysis of 31 studies published late last week in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.… ...More...
China: 16 cases of Omicron BA.2.3 reported in Yantai, Shandong
16 cases of Omicron BA.2.3, were reported on Monday in Yantai, East China’s Shandong Province, the first time the strain has been detected in the Chinese mainland.… ...More...
UK study: Only a quarter of hospitalized Covid patients are fully recovered after one year
A UK study of more than 2,000 patients after hospitalization with COVID-19 shows only around 1 in 4 feel fully recovered after one year.… ...More...
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