Category: Deaths
Germany: Covid lockdown imminent
German Health Minister Jens Spahn on Friday said that the pandemic situation has worsened over the past week and it’s now “more serious than last week,” adding that the country is facing “a national emergency.” More...
Sweden: “our high death toll can protect against a new wave”
Seriously, this is the headline in one of Sweden’s top newspapers today: “Sweden’s high death toll can protect against a new wave”. More...
Belgium: 54% of COVID-19 patients in ICUs are fully vaccinated
At a press briefing, the virologist Steven Van Gucht gave new figures on the percentage of immunised and non-immunised COVID-19 patients on the country’s intensive care wards.
Germany and Czech Republic impose Covid restrictions on the unvaccinated
The presidents of the states of Germany have agreed on Thursday with the central government to introduce restrictions on public life for people who have not been vaccinated against covid-19. More...
Europe: all-time Covid infection record broken by growing winter superwave
Europe has broken through its all-time high for Covid cases, and is seeing sharp increases in infections right across the continent. More...
Germany could soon register up to 400,000 Covid infections a day without mitigations
Germany could register up to 400,000 infections of Covid 19 a day if measures are not established that lead to a clear reduction of contacts, according to a new study. More...
USA: Covid blizzard in Minnesota – 72,628 vaccine breakthrough cases, 519 deaths
“We are in the middle of a COVID blizzard right now in Minnesota,” state infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said. More...
USA: CDC quietly backs away from herd immunity
The prospects for meeting a clear herd-immunity target are “very complicated,” said Dr. More...
The 2021 winter wave will be the largest Covid wave so far
It looks like the 2021 Covid global winter wave will be a much larger repeat of the 2020 winter wave, with Europe and North America being the biggest contributors of new Covid cases again. More...
South Korea: 50% vaccine breakthrough for new Covid-19 cases
About half of new COVID-19 cases in the South Korea over the past two weeks were breakthrough infections.









