Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
India: Neela the lioness dies of coronavirus infection at Vandalur zoo – UPDATED
A 9-year-old lioness has died of suspected Coronavirus infection at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur, on the outskirts of the Indian city. More...
Nepal: Health Ministry refutes “new variant” of coronavirus in Nepal
The Nepalese Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has said that no new variant of coronavirus has been detected in the country so far. More...
Australia: Kappa variant B.1.617.1 responsible for latest Melbourne outbreak
The latest Melbourne outbreak is believed to have begun when a traveller infected with the Kappa variant (B16171) returned to Australia. More...
UK: “Everest climbers could have spread potentially more infectious and vaccine resistant’ variant
So, more of a “Western mountaineers” variant then?
Daily Mail story “Everest climbers could have spread ‘potentially more infectious AND vaccine resistant’ Nepal Covid variant“
UK: “Everest climbers could have spread potentially more infectious and vaccine resistant’ variant
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UK: Grant Shapps – “there’s a sort of Nepal mutation of the so-called Indian variant which has been detected and we just don’t know the potential for that to be a vaccine-defeating mutation”
Grant Shapps, UK Transport Secretary “we’ve seen two things really which caused concern. More...
UK: government risk assessment of coronavirus Delta variant B.1.617.2 – evidence of frequent vaccine failure or decreased effectiveness in humans * UPDATED *
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- * UK risk assessment for Delta variant as per 10th June 2021
Previous UK risk assessment as per 3rd June 2021
The UK government risk assessment for B.1.617.2 Delta variant has been published today and it’s NOT good news. More...
Portugal: dropped from UK travel green list after just two weeks
Portugal is axed from UK’s green list and relegated to the Amber list. More...
The “Nepal Variant” – does it exist or is it just racist fearmongering?
There’s plenty of coverage in the UK press today about a so-called “Nepal Variant” of Sars-CoV-2. More...
Portugal: could be taken off the UK’s coronavirus travel green list for having the same infection trajectory as the UK
“UK government Ministers and their medical advisers will meet on Thursday to decide whether Portugal should be dropped from the green list and instead rated amber, requiring holidaymakers to quarantine for 10 days on their return and pay for two PCR tests. More...
Preprint: “Antigenic minimalism as an emerging evolutionary strategy for coronavirus to evade immune responses”
“..we generated clinically annotated SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequences and identified deletions within this NTD antigenic supersite in a patient with vaccine breakthrough infection (Δ156-164) and other deletions from unvaccinated severe COVID-19 patients that could represent emerging deletion-prone regions. More...