Category: Coronavirus
Coronavirus News
France: BA.5 now dominant, Covid cases up by more than 50% in one week
BA.5 at 59%, sharp increase in Covid cases in all regions and age groups, hospital admission rate rising. More...
Denmark: Covid cases up 27% in one week, hospitalizations up by 45%
New COVID-19 cases increased by 27%, hospitalizations increased by 45%, and the incidence has risen to 178 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. More...
Germany: Covid cases up by 38% in one week
The nationwide 7-day incidence increased in week 25 compared to the previous week by almost 155,000 cases (+38%). More...
USA: 14-year-old tiger dies of Covid-19 in Ohio zoo
“We are sad to report that 14-year-old Amur tiger, Jupiter, passed away on Sunday, June 26, 2022, after developing pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus.” More...
UK: Over 3 million symptomatic cases of Covid-19
The UK ZOE Covid app is reporting that, for the second time in just over three months, more than three million people in the UK have symptomatic Covid. More...
Long Covid: Microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs into the blood vessels
A team of researchers based at five centres across Ontario have zeroed in on a microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs and into the blood vessels of long COVID patients in their trial. More...
Anthony Fauci Paxlovid rebound
Anthony Fauci has been talking about his recent Covid infection, and seeing the infection rebound after a course of Paxlovid. More...
New subvariant of Omicron BA.5 designated BE.1
The new subvariant differs from the conventional BA.5 by three additional mutations (N:E136D, ORF1a:Q556K, ORF1b:M1156I). More...
Nature: Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2
Following the hypothesis that some neurological symptoms of COVID-19 may also follow an amyloid etiology we identified two peptides from the SARSCoV-2 proteome that self-assemble into amyloid assemblies. More...
WHO altering documents relating to Monkeypox transmission
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have been caught editing out references to airborne transmission of Monkeypox from documents on their website. More...