Category: Transmission
Hungary: A 19-year-old man has also been killed by the coronavirus, with very many victims under the age of 50
A 19-year-old man is the youngest victim of the coronavirus, according to uploaded to the Hungarian government information page recent data . More...
Malta enters month-long coronavirus lockdown. Schools closed, services closed, sports activities stopped, hairdressers, gyms closed
Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela said in a press conference today that:
- All restaurants and ancillary services in hotels will close and only room service will be provided;
- Closure of non-essential shops and services including hairdressers, barbers, beauty shops, clothes shops, furniture and jewellery shops, toyshops and florists;
- Crossings to Gozo will be limited to essential travel and those who own property on the island;
- Groups gathering in public are being limited to four from the current six;
- All organised sports activities are banned;
- Pools, cinemas, museums, theatres, wedding receptions and religious activities banned except funerals;
- Non-urgent surgery to be postponed;
- Religious activities including Masses stopped except funerals;
- The measures apply until April 11
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In Milan, nine doctors and nurses test positive for coronavirus after the second dose of vaccine
Nine health workers have tested positive workers after receiving the second dose of the vaccine . More...
Walter Reed coronavirus study: “We found moderate evidence for 8 SARS-CoV-2 recombination events, two of which involved the spike gene”
We undertook recombination analyses of 158,118 public seasonal hCoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV genome sequences using the RDP4 software. More...
BMJ: B.1.1.7 “in addition to being more transmissible, seems to be more lethal”
Results The mortality hazard ratio associated with infection with VOC-202012/1 compared with infection with previously circulating variants was 1.64 (95% confidence interval 1.32 to 2.04) in patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in the community. More...
Antibody resistance of coronavirus variants B.1.351 (SA) and B.1.1.7 (UK)
“Findings on B.1.351 [South Africa variant] are more worrisome in that this variant is not only refractory to neutralization by most NTD mAbs but also by multiple individual mAbs to the receptor-binding motif on RBD, largely owing to an E484K mutation. More...
High pollen count linked to coronavirus infection rates
A study has found that high pollen counts, partially affected by air humidity and temperature, contributed to a more than 40 percent increase in coronavirus infection frequency. More...
Air pollution by fine particles may be responsible for worsening the coronavirus epidemic
For the second week in a row contaminations and hospitalizations linked to Covid-19 rose again between February 22 and 28. More...
Imperial College: SARSCoV2 coronavirus variant P1 is more transmissible, evasive, and growing rapidly in Brazil
Researchers estimate that the P.1 VOC is between 1.4–2.2 times more transmissible than non-VOC lineages. More...
Wuhan finds coronavirus on packages of Brazilian beef, Vietnamese fish
Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, has launched an epidemiological investigation after the coronavirus was discovered on two packages of beef imported from Brazil and on one package of fish imported from Vietnam, local health authority announced on Saturday. More...