Category: Asia
Asian Coronavirus News
Israel: fully vaccinated tourists banned from entering the country
Vaccinated tourists will not be allowed to enter Israel on August 1, as previously decided, Health Ministry’s Director General Prof.
Bangladesh: new study shows 80% percent of children infected by Delta are under 10 years of age
The Chittagong study included children from newborns to 18-year-olds infected with coronavirus. More...
Gupta Lab: Delta variant emergence, replication and immune evasion
Bad news from the Gupta Lab who have been looking at the Delta variant. More...
WHO: strong likelihood for the emergence and global spread of new and possibly more dangerous variants of concern
“Despite national, regional, and global efforts, the pandemic is nowhere near finished. More...
India: children returning to hospitals with long-covid symptoms like breathlessness, headaches, say Delhi doctors
Dr Nameet Jerath, Senior Consultant, Pediatric Intensive Care, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, said most children previously infected with coronavirus have had mild Covid, but stressed that even those who were asymptomatic are having prolonged low grade fevers, weakness, headache even after recovery. More...
India: Delta Plus Delta-AY.1 dominant in Tripura – found in 138 out of 151 coronavirus sequences
At least 138 of the 151 Covid-19 samples sent by Tripura for genome sequencing have tested positive for the Delta Plus variant, State Health Surveillance Officer Dr Deep Kumar Debbarma said. More...
Pfizer Chief Scientific Officer: after six months there likely is the risk of coronavirus reinfection as antibodies wane
Pfizer Chief Scientific Officer Mikael Dolsten said the recently reported dip in the vaccine’s effectiveness in Israel was mostly due to infections in people who had been vaccinated in January or February. 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...
Israel: 56% of serious coronavirus cases in hospitals are fully vaccinated
Eran Segal, a COVID expert and one of the top government advisers to the Israeli coronavirus cabinet said that while 56% of current serious COVID cases occur among fully-vaccinated individuals, the vaccine nevertheless remains the best possible protection against the disease. More...
Israel: Hebrew University study finds Pfizer vaccine just 70% effective against Delta variant
In a separate report to the one we mentioned earlier where the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine was estimated to be just 64%, a new study from the Hebrew University reports that the Pfizer vaccine is 70 percent effective against the new ultra-contagious Delta variant. More...