Category: Mutation
Oxford University: “vaccine effective against major B.1.1.7 ‘Kent’ coronavirus strain circulating in the UK”
“Data from our trials of the ChAdOx1 vaccine in the United Kingdom indicate that the vaccine not only protects against the original pandemic virus, but also protects against the novel variant, B.1.1.7”
The Oxford University researchers who developed the ChAdOx1-nCoV 19 vaccine have found that it remains effective against one of the new variants of the disease. More...
SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection
“These data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy associated with emergence of viral variants with evidence of reduced susceptibility to neutralising antibodies.” More...
Corzano, Italy: We have 140 positives and 60% are elementary and kindergarten students
10 percent of the population of Corzano, a town of 1,400 people in the province of Brescia, is positive for Covid. More...
7% SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate: 30 Brazil healthcare workers reinfected, often with worse symptoms than first infection
A professor of immunology at Imperial College London, told Sky News that while there were only 100 proven cases worldwide of reinfection, his conversations with doctors suggested it was “far more common than we’ve imagined”. More...
Tenth Yanomami child dies of coronavirus in Brazil
The Yanomami recorded the death of one more child by covid-19 and account for ten deaths caused by the disease. More...
3,100 mink from Galicia, Spain farm affected by Covid-19 gassed
The 3,100 mink were at a farm in A Baña (A Coruña) where employees had tested positive for Covid-19
This weekend the 3,100 mink which comprised the total stock of the mink farm ( 2,500 females and 600 males) were killed using the same gasification process as is normally used in order to obtain the fur pelts for which the animals are reared. More...
Poland finds first case of COVID-19 in mink
The Polish health minister has said mink on a farm in north-western Poland will be culled after the SARS-Cov-2 virus was detected. More...
Circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.1.7, 501Y.V2, and P.1 have gained ability to utilize rat and mouse Ace2 and altered in vitro sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies and ACE2-Ig
Here, we first investigated cross-species receptor usage of multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants that emerged during the pandemic. More...
Reinfection from SARS-CoV-2 lineage P.2 with the E484K spike mutation in Brazil
We report the first case of reinfection from genetically distinct SARS-CoV-2 lineage [P.2] presenting the E484K spike mutation in Brazil, a variant associated with escape from neutralizing antibodies. More...
SARS-CoV-2 reinfection by the new Variant of Concern (VOC) P.1 in Amazonas, Brazil
“In this study, we report the first documented case of reinfection with the newly emerging P.1 lineage in a 29-years-old individual from Amazonas, a Brazilian state that was severely hit by COVID-19 at the first epidemic wave between March and July, and is currently facing a spiraling surge of deaths since November 2020. More...