Category: Asia
Asian Coronavirus News
Israel: Pfizer vaccine effectiveness against coronavirus infection has dropped to just 64%
From June 6 – five days after the abolition of all coronavirus restrictions in Israel – until Tuesday, the effectiveness of the [Pfizer] vaccine against corona infection dropped to only 64%. More...
Israel: new coronavirus restrictions considered as Delta rate climbs
Israeli government ministers are reportedly mulling caps on gatherings, reintroducing the ‘Green Pass’ in a limited format and forcing parents of infected kids to enter quarantine. More...
Israel: Delta variant causing an increase in recorded coronavirus cases
Some 307 new coronavirus cases were identified in Israel on Wednesday. More...
Saudi Arabia: highest coronavirus infection figures for 11 months
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it has recorded 1,567 COVID-19 infections during the past 24 hours, the highest daily in 11 months, bringing the tally to 486,106 cases, local media reported.
Hong Kong: all passenger flights from UK banned to curb coronavirus – Britain deemed “extremely high-risk”
Hong Kong will ban all passenger flights from the United Kingdom from Thursday (Jul 1) to curb the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the government said on Monday. More...
Bangladesh: hardest coronavirus lockdown so far announced
Bangladesh is set to enter the toughest lockdown enforced till now in a bid to control the alarming Covid-19 situation after logging the highest number of single-day fatalities and cases in two consecutive days. More...
Israel: Tel Aviv, Kfar Saba, Modi’in and Kochav Yair classified as coronavirus hotspots
Tel Aviv and Kfar Saba were classified as coronavirus hotspots on Sunday, or ‘yellow’ under the Israeli health ministry’s traffic light system. More...
Israel: 50% vaccine breakthrough for coronavirus cases in the last month
Half of those recently infected with Covid-19 in Israel were fully vaccinated. More...
Israel: Delta coronavirus outbreaks – Binyamina designated orange, Modiin Maccabim-Re’ut designated yellow
The Israeli Health Ministry reported 110 new coronavirus cases in Israel in the last 24 hours on Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of active cases to 554. More...
Preprint: Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic
“Here I identify a data set containing SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early in the Wuhan epidemic that has been deleted from the NIH’s Sequence Read Archive. More...