Category: Asia
Asian Coronavirus News
Nepal: rise in coronavirus cases has similar trajectory to India driven by B117 and B1617
Authorities in Nepal are grappling to contain the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases with experts fearing that thousands of people in the Himalayan state have caught the more infectious mutant strains emerging out of India. More...
Israel: 62 cases of myocarditis following Pfizer coronavirus vaccination
About one in 100,000 people who received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine suffered from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) – a preliminary report by the committee of experts tasked by the Health Ministry to monitor the vaccine’s side effects has found. More...
Sri Lanka: New and more potent strain of coronavirus detected in Sri Lanka – “The variant can stay airborne for almost an hour and is spreading quick”
A brand new coronavirus variant that’s airborne and stronger than all those discovered beforehand in Sri Lanka has been found within the island nation, an immunologist has said in Colombo. More...
Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality among pregnant women with and without COVID-19 coronavirus infection
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From March to October last year the INTERCOVID team tracked data on 2,130 pregnant women across the world from Argentina to Russia, including the UK, US, France, Italy and Japan. More...
India: Over 50% of coronavirus genome samples in some Maharahstra cities are “double mutant” B.1.617
Sujeet Singh, director of the Indian National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said that in Maharashtra, the B.1.617 variant was found in proportions of over 50% in many cities. More...
Thailand: seven medical staff suffered partial paralysis after receiving Sinovac coronavirus vaccine
Seven people suffered from partial paralysis after receiving the Sinovac vaccine, a doctor from Chulalongkorn University said. More...
India: Doctors discuss the diagnosis and treatment of B.1.617 double mutant coronavirus patients
“Death of fully vaccinated people”, “Increased incidence of reinfections”, “Very infectious. More...
Hong Kong: 51 coronavirus infections on single flight from India
A genetic study of viral samples from infected passengers on a flight into Hong Kong later found to have a record number of Covid-19 cases will be undertaken to determine whether in-flight transmission or quarantine facilities were to blame, with implications on tighter protocols required to contain such spikes. More...
Hong Kong: coronavirus transmission linked to quarantine hotel door hooks used for meal deliveries
Hong Kong’s first community infection of a mutant Covid-19 strain involved the South African variant, officials revealed on Tuesday, with transmission likely to have taken place at a quarantine hotel via door hooks used by staff to deliver meal boxes to guests. More...
India: B.1.617 now at 61% of coronavirus genome samples in Maharashtra – was ~20% just one month ago
The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has shared data with laboratories in Maharashtra showing that of 361 Covid-19 samples taken in Maharashtra from January to March and genome sequenced, 61% or 220 had the double mutation E484Q and L452R, now classified as B.1.617 lineage. More...