Category: Vaccine
Austria and Denmark to work with Israel on future coronavirus vaccines – EU ‘too slow’
Austria’s chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, described the EU’s vaccination deployment as “too slow” as he announced that his country and Denmark would work with Israel on protecting their citizens against new coronavirus variants. More...
Israel: Netanyahu wants 36m more coronavirus vaccines. “The worst scenario is that we have to vaccinate every half year.”
Israel is looking to buy 36 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines, three times the number it has already bought, in case booster shots are needed later in the year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. More...
Phylogenetic relationship of SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Amazonas with emerging Brazilian variants harboring mutations E484K and N501Y in the Spike protein
Here we report a preliminary genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.28 lineage circulating in the Brazilian Amazon region and their evolutionary relationship with emerging and potential emerging SARS-CoV-2 Brazilian variants harboring mutations in the RBD of Spike (S) protein. More...
Italian coronavirus vaccine begins first clinical trials
Clinical trials of the all-Italian anti Covid-19 vaccine has started. More...
More than 40,000 active coronavirus cases in Israel with 51.5% of the population vaccinated. Transmission R rate nears 1
There are 40,108 active coronavirus cases in Israel, according to Israeli Health Ministry figures released on Sunday morning. More...
UK alert issued after Brazil P1 Manaus variant was found in a coronavirus test without a name on it
UK health officials want anyone who took a test on February 12 or 13 and has not yet had their result or did not complete their registration card to get in touch immediately. More...
Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity, data suggests. More...
Six cases of Manaus, Brazil P1 coronavirus variant found in UK for first time
Six cases of the Manaus Brazilian coronavirus variant have been identified in the UK, Public Health England has said. More...
2 Israeli men in their 20s die of COVID-19 in a day
Neither had pre-existing health conditions; both collapsed in their homes
Two Israeli men in their twenties with no pre-existing health conditions died of COVID-19 within hours of each other on Thursday. More...
50% of Israel population now vaccinated but coronavirus infection rate is increasing
As Israel continues to reopen its economy following a six-week lockdown, the COVID-19 infection has reversed course and is on the rise once again, with the R rate inching toward 1 again and currently at 0.97. More...