Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
Ramon Valls, Spain’s first confirmed case of coronavirus reinfection
There are just over half a dozen cases of Covid-19 reinfections worldwide among the millions who have caught the disease. More...
Italian professor and musician Sandro Tognatti dies after vaccination with the Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine
The 57-year-old musician Sandro Tognatti is the teacher who was given the AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday and whose death took place on Sunday 14 March in Biella. More...
Coronavirus found in the eyes of more than half of COVID-19 patients – “SARS-CoV-2 could ride on atmospheric particulate matter and remain in the atmosphere for hours or days”
Testing for severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in human tears can help spot infections that go undetected with current nose-pharyngeal molecular swabs. More...
Dutch virologist: “It’s a competition: the vaccine against the coronavirus. And the virus is going to win that match”
A third corona wave can no longer be averted in the Netherlands according to virologist Bert Niesters of the University Medical Center Groningen who expresses this fear in the Nederlands Dagblad. More...
Autopsy today on the body of the soldier Stefano Paternò who died after coronavirus vaccination
An autopsy on the body of Stefano Paternò, the 43-year-old non-commissioned officer of the Navy, serving in Augusta and residing in Misterbianco, who died a few hours after the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine, will be performed this afternoon at the Cannizzaro hospital in Catania. More...
Investigation into the death of Italian policeman Davide Villa after coronavirus vaccination
The investigation into the death of Davide Villa, the Catania anti-crime policeman who died on 7 March, 12 days after the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine, passes to the Messina Prosecutor’s Office. More...
Three health workers hospitalized in Norway with blood clots or cerebral haemorrhage after Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccination
“Today we have received three more reports of severe blood clots or cerebral haemorrhages in people who have received the vaccine. More...
Older people are more contagious for coronavirus
Older people are more contagious
Denmark’s SSI study shows that no matter how much virus the first infected person in a household had, the older the first infected person was, the more other household members became infected with SARS-CoV-2. More...
Denmark’s SSI: Even people with a very low amount of coronavirus are able to infect other household members
Impossible to set minimum limit for risk of infection
Based on laboratory studies, where Ct values are compared with the ability to grow viruses in cell cultures, several researchers have proposed a “cut-off” or a minimum limit of the Ct value of 30 for infectiousness. More...
Several younger patients experienced skin bleeding after having AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine jab
Several younger people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine have reported major or minor skin bleeding. More...