Category: Infection
Dog and cat infected with UK coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 in Texas
The United Kingdom variant (B.1.1.7) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected for the first time in a dog and a cat from the same household in Brazos County, Texas, as part of a study led by researchers at Texas A&M University. More...
Paris heading for coronavirus lockdown as ICU’s fill up
Officials say the Paris region may be headed toward a new lockdown as new Covid-19 variants fill up hospitals’ intensive care wards and limited vaccine supplies drag down inoculation efforts. More...
Finland: Had two coronavirus vaccine doses but was still infected with the South African variant
A South African variant of the virus has been detected in sequencing from one previously reported chain of infection in the Essote area of Finland. More...
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...
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...
Evidence for diurnal variation in the proportion of positive PCR coronavirus tests, with a peak around 2pm
We tested the hypothesis that the proportion of positive SARS-CoV-2 real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests varied by time of day, suggesting variation in viral shedding by time of day. More...
90 cases of Brazil related coronavirus variant PHL-B.1.1.28 in The Philippines
The Philippines now has all three variants of the coronavirus that have been fuelling record-breaking spikes in infections across the globe, and a Philippine variant (PHL-B.1.1.28) that has the same lineage as the infectious Brazilian variant. More...
SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest with mutation E484K was identified within lineage B.1.1.33 circulating in Brazil
We report the identification of a new SARS-CoV-2 VOI within lineage B.1.1.33 that also harbors mutation S:E484K and was detected in Brazil between November 2020 and February 2021. 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...
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...