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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: Covid infection of 505 days is a new record

King’s College London researchers have described the longest known COVID-19 infection. More...

April 24, 2022July 10, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, England, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Mutation, PCR, Symptoms, Transmission, UK

Preprint: Rates of COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with prior infection

Prior COVID-19 (in the unvaccinated) was associated with protection of 85% against any recurrent COVID-19, 88% against hospitalization for COVID-19, and 83% against COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization. More...

April 22, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, PCR, Reinfection, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning

Spain: Fully boosted healthcare worker reinfected with SARs-CoV-2 after just 20 days

A fully boosted 31-year-old Spanish woman has contracted two different SARS-CoV-2 variants within three weeks. More...

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Delta, Europe, Genome, Healthcare, Infection, Moderna, Omicron, PCR, Recurrence, Reinfection, Revaccination, Spain, Symptoms, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine Breakthrough

Canada: Ontario Risk Assessment for BA.2 to April 5, 2022

“Close monitoring of epidemiological trends since March 21, 2022 (date of mask mandate removal) suggests a corresponding temporal association with a subsequent increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases, percent positivity, and hospitalizations.” More...

April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com BA.2, Canada, Children, Coronavirus, Genome, Hospitalization, Infection, Omicron, Ontario, PCR, Symptoms, Testing

China: new subvariant of BA.1.1 found in Suzhou

China is battling record coronavirus infection numbers as its fight against the Omicron variant intensifies. More...

April 3, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Antigen, BA.1.1, BA.2, China, Coronavirus, Genome, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, Omicron, PCR, Testing, Transmission

France: Nearly 700,000 Covid reinfections reported

685,858 possible cases of reinfection identified between March 2, 2021 and March 20, 2022, of which 95.2% since December 6, 2021 (start of distribution of the Omicron variant in France). More...