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UK: Admission and Care of Residents during COVID-19 Incident in a Care Home

Public Health England, April 2020: “Some of these patients may have COVID-19, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic. More...

May 1, 2022May 1, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, England, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Superspreader events, Symptoms, Transmission, UK, Wales, Wildtype

UKHSA suspends routine Covid testing in hospitals and care homes

More than 800 staff are due to be lost from UK health protection teams across the country in the coming months, a reduction of 40% from the current 2,000 members of staff. More...

April 26, 2022April 28, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Antigen, Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, England, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Northern Ireland, PCR, Scotland, Testing, Transmission, UK, Wales

UK NHS: 15,000 patients with Covid and rising

A UK NHS leader has given a graphic account of the pressure that the health service is currently under. More...

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, England, Health, Healthcare, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Northern Ireland, Reinfection, Scotland, Transmission, UK, Wales

China: 50 SARS-CoV-2 sequences uploaded to Gisaid

Gisaid have published a report recently on fifty SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences uploaded by China which seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream media. More...

April 16, 2022April 16, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2, BA.2.2, China, Coronavirus, Deaths, Delta, Elderly, Genome, Health, Hong Kong, Infection, Omicron, Recombination, Testing, Transmission

UK: Covid-19 deaths at highest level since March 2021

The UK is currently witnessing its biggest increase in deaths from Covid-19 in a year. More...

April 16, 2022April 17, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.2, Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, England, Health, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Northern Ireland, Omicron, Recombinants, Scotland, UK, Wales, XE

China: Omicron subvariant detected in Beijing

Chinese state news has announced that they have uncovered new Covid cases in Beijing caused by a subvariant of Omicron. More...

April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, China, Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, Genome, Herd Immunity, Hong Kong, Hospitalization, Infection, Long Covid, Omicron, Quarantine, Reinfection, Testing, Transmission, Variants

UK ONS: 2.7% of the British population reporting Long Covid symptoms

An estimated 1.7 million people living in private households in the UK (2.7% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 5 March 2022

The estimates presented in this analysis relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants who responded to a representative survey, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 syndrome in the full population. More...

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.1, BA.2, Children, Coronavirus, Delta, Elderly, England, Europe, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Mental Heath, Northern Ireland, Omicron, Recombinants, Scotland, Symptoms, Transmission, UK, Wales

EMA: “Too early to consider using a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines”

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and EMA’s COVID-19 task force (ETF) have concluded that it is too early to consider using a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax) in the general population. More...