Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
Oslo, Norway: new coronavirus lockdown closes restaurants, non-essential shops & secondary schools
In Oslo, all restaurants, except take-away services, and non-essential shops, except groceries, pharmacies and liquor stores, will have to close from Tuesday, while the “red” level is imposed at upper secondary schools, meaning that students, who were fully back at school, will now do some online learning. More...
Imperial College study: 2% of babies born to coronavirus positive UK mothers later test positive for the virus themselves
The proportion of babies born to mothers with confirmed COVID-19, and who subsequently tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus (which causes COVID-19) was 2 per cent in the UK study, and 1.8 per cent in the US study. 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...
Event 201 – A pandemic exercise hosted by Johns Hopkins, WEF & Bill Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019 in NYC
Event 201 was a pandemic forum hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership, with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019, in New York – just two months before the first Covid-19 cases were reported in China. More...
Coronavirus was already spreading in France in late December 2019
RT-PCR was performed retrospectively on the stored respiratory sample [from December 2019] and confirmed the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. More...
Patient and surgeon contract coronavirus during lung transplant operation
The coronavirus can linger in the lungs even when swab tests of the back of the nose and throat are negative, doctors reported after unknowingly transplanting infected lungs into a patient who later died of COVID-19. More...
Stillborn baby death linked to coronavirus, second such case in one week in Israel
A woman in her 36th week of pregnancy gave birth to a dead baby on Friday at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. 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...
Three cases of South African coronavirus variant B.1.351 confirmed in Czech kindergarten
Elisabeth Pharmacon laboratory in Brno, Czech Republic has detected three cases of the South African mutation of the coronavirus, in samples taken in a local kindergarten. More...