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Europe: all-time Covid infection record broken by growing winter superwave

Europe has broken through its all-time high for Covid cases, and is seeing sharp increases in infections right across the continent. More...

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Denmark: huge queues at Covid test centres as infection rates soar

Denmark has seen large queues at Covid test centres across the country today as its all-time Covid infection record looks likely to be broken within days. More...

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Ireland: new restrictions to prevent Covid winter wave

Working from home, midnight closing time for hospitality among measures announced by Irish Taoiseach. More...

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Germany could soon register up to 400,000 Covid infections a day without mitigations

Germany could register up to 400,000 infections of Covid 19 a day if measures are not established that lead to a clear reduction of contacts, according to a new study. More...

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USA: Covid blizzard in Minnesota – 72,628 vaccine breakthrough cases, 519 deaths

“We are in the middle of a COVID blizzard right now in Minnesota,” state infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said. More...

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UKHSA risk assessment for Sars-CoV-2 variant AY.4.2

AY.4.2 continues to increase in prevalence slowly in England. More...

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Preprint: Genome recombination between Delta and Alpha variants of SARS-CoV-2

Prominent genomic recombination has been observed between the Delta and Alpha variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolated from clinical specimens in Japan. More...