Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
OurWorldinData records massive rise in UK Covid cases
It looks like another OurWorldinData glitch, but it’s worth recording just in case it isn’t. More...
UK: Covid on the rise in FIFTH wave of the year
The UK ZOE app is showing Covid cases are once again on then rise in what would be the fifth wave of 2022 in the UK. More...
Preprint: Two thirds of first-wave Covid cases have long Covid
The proportion of patients with at least 1 post–COVID-19 symptom 2 years after acute infection was 59.7% for hospitalized patients and 67.5% for those not requiring hospitalization. More...
BF.7: Another contender for global domination
The XBB and BQ.1 variants have recently been making headlines, but another SARS-CoV-2 variant, BF.7 has been closely tracking their success across the globe. More...
Hospitalized Covid-19 patients have 118 times greater risk of death than outpatients
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were at dramatically higher risk for death, a blood clot in a vein, heart failure, and stroke within 30 days. More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 may have originated as an infectious clone assembled in vitro
A new preprint out today finds that SARS-COV-2 has “a synthetic fingerprint unlikely to have evolved from its close relatives.” More...
Ebola case fatality rate is between 40% to 90%
“The illness has a case fatality rate of between 40% to 90% (depending on the virus species) with SUDV having a case fatality rate of approximately 50% seen in previous outbreaks.” More...
Denmark: A soup of 120 Covid variants sequenced in one month
You may have heard the expression “a soup of Covid variants” recently.. More...
Italy: Covid infections up 52% in one week *1 Update*
Italy has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and admissions to ICU in the past week. More...
Growth advantage for BQ.1.1 is above 100% per week
The Omicron variant BQ.1.1 appears to be in a prime position to drive the coming winter wave in Europe. More...