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Germany: Covid cases up by 38% in one week

The nationwide 7-day incidence increased in week 25 compared to the previous week by almost 155,000 cases (+38%). More...

June 30, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.5, Coronavirus, Deaths, Europe, Germany, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, Transmission, Variants

Science Mag: SARS-CoV-2 already finding ways to evade Paxlovid

New lab studies shows that SARS-CoV-2 can mutate in ways that make it less susceptible to Paxlovid. More...

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Health, Hospitalization, Infection, Paxlovid, Preprint, Research

USA: 14-year-old tiger dies of Covid-19 in Ohio zoo

“We are sad to report that 14-year-old Amur tiger, Jupiter, passed away on Sunday, June 26, 2022, after developing pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus.” More...

June 30, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com America, Animals, Coronavirus, Health, Ohio, Spillover, Tigers, Transmission, USA

WHO: BA.5 now dominant globally

As of epidemiological week 24, BA.5 represents 43% of global sequences at Gisaid, BA.2 represents 25%, BA.4 represents 12%, and BA.2.12.1 represents 11%. More...

June 30, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Africa, America, Asia, Australasia, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, BA.4, BA.5, Deaths, Europe, Health, Infection, Omicron, Research, Transmission, USA, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning

France: First case of Monkeypox in a child

“The Regional Health Agency (ARS) Île-de-France informs of the occurrence of a first confirmed case of monkeypox in a child attending primary school in the region.” More...

June 29, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Europe, France, Health, Monkeypox, Netherlands, Symptoms, Transmission

WHO: “Several children already infected” with Monkeypox

Just two days after deciding that the international Monkeypox outbreak wasn’t sufficiently serious enough to warrant designating it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the WHO are already backtracking. More...

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Africa, America, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Health, Healthcare, Immunocompromised, Infection, Monkeypox, Symptoms, Transmission, UK, USA

UK: Over 3 million symptomatic cases of Covid-19

The UK ZOE Covid app is reporting that, for the second time in just over three months, more than three million people in the UK have symptomatic Covid. More...

June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.2, BA.5, Coronavirus, England, Europe, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Northern Ireland, Omicron, Reinfection, Scotland, Transmission, UK, Wales

Long Covid: Microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs into the blood vessels

A team of researchers based at five centres across Ontario have zeroed in on a microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs and into the blood vessels of long COVID patients in their trial. More...