Hong Kong: Link between Covid cases and deaths re-established *4 UPDATES*

Hong Kong may impose a hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday 28th February 2022, with the city’s zero-COVID strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals.  More...

Preprint: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

“At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days.  More...

Vietnam: Young coronavirus patients with no underlying health conditions have ‘white lungs after a few days of Covid-19 symptoms’

Deputy Director of the Medical Examination and Treatment Administration, Vietnamese Ministry of Health, assessed that young people without underlying diseases develop lung damage very quickly, just a few days after symptoms appear white on both sides of the lungs.  More...

Vietnam: recombinant/hybrid coronavirus announced – B.1.617.2 Delta variant with Y144 mutation from B.1.1.7 Alpha variant

Vietnam has detected a coronavirus hybrid variant with characteristics from the existing B16172 Delta variant and B117 Alpha variant, the Ministry of Health announced Saturday.  More...