Category: Transmission
Germany: Bavaria declared a Covid disaster zone
Bavaria has proclaimed a nationwide disaster. Prime Minister Markus Söder declared the disaster due to “the current worrying situation in the corona pandemic. More...
Canada: Covid transmission between mink, between mink and humans, and humans back to mink
The Canadian provincial Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham unveiled a process to permanently phase out the farming of mink, due to concerns over COVID-19. More...
Europe: explosive Covid growth rates, steeper than the winter wave of 2020 in many countries
Europe is seeing some stunning increases in the daily Covid case rate across much of the continent. More...
UK: nearly 400,000 kids infected with Covid in one month
The latest UKHSA vaccine report has just been published. More...
Austria, Germany and Greece all see pandemic high Covid infection figures
Austria, Greece and Germany have all seen pandemic record high Covid infection figures over the past few days. More...
France: Covid facemasks made mandatory in schools again
Schoolchildren in large parts of France were ordered Monday to again wear face masks in class, less than a month after being allowed to remove them, as the country tries to tamp down a surge in Covid cases. More...
India: Covid infections twice as high in fully vaccinated than those with single dose
More positive Covid cases are reported among fully-vaccinated people in India compared to those who have only had a single dose of vaccine. More...
Croatia: highest number of Covid cases since the pandemic began
7,094 new cases of Covid-19 virus infection were recorded on November 5th 2021, and the number of active cases in Croatia today is a total of 31,689. More...
China: Covid outbreaks in 44 cities across 20 provinces
From October 17th to November 5th, some 918 confirmed cases of Covid have been reported in China, with the current wave hitting 44 cities across 20 provinces with viral chains linked back to multiple imported sources which are unrelated to each other. More...
USA: Hyenas test positive for Sars-Cov-2 in Colorado zoo
Two hyenas at the Denver Zoo have tested positive for the coronavirus, the first confirmed cases among the animals worldwide. More...