Category: Transmission
Israel: 56% of new Covid cases are in schoolchildren
“The majority of new Covid cases each day are among school-age children, most of whom are not vaccinated against COVID-19. More...
California: 159,253 vaccine breakthrough cases, 4,252 hospitalized, 622 deaths
Between January 01, 2021 and September 19, 2021 in California, out of over 23.5 million fully vaccinated individuals, 159,253 post-vaccination cases have been identified. More...
32% of world’s population is fully vaccinated, but the global case fatality rate is increasing again
32 percent of the population of the globe has now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but the global case fatality rate has started increasing again – for the first time in four months. More...
Massachusetts: Vaccine breakthrough cases double in one month to 32,345
Massachusetts vaccine breakthrough case numbers have more than doubled in one month, from 15,739 breakthrough cases on the 25th August 2021, to 32,345 on September 22nd 2021. More...
Chile: Delta variant doubles to 60% in just two weeks, outcompetes Gamma, Lambda, MU
The Delta variant, which was first detected in Chile just two months ago, is now found in 61% of all genome samples. More...
China continues with its Zero-Covid policy
Public health observers are confident that China’s “zero tolerance” COVID-19 policy will safeguard the country to withstand epidemic flare-ups, although the outbreak in East China’s Fujian Province is still intense and Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province reported three fresh cases on Tuesday during the national holidays to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival. More...
Cornell University: 95% Covid vaccinated, 322 infections in one week
Cornell University, which has a population of around 40,000 and a 95% Covid-19 vaccination rate, was declared a “yellow zone” after their first week of classes because 322 people there tested positive for the coronavirus during the opening “surveillance testing.” More...
USA: Six African lions, a Sumatran tiger and two Amur tigers infected with Covid in Washington Zoo
Six African lions, a Sumatran tiger and two Amur tigers at the National Zoo in Washington have tested positive for the coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, the Smithsonian Institution said Friday. More...
Malaysia: surge in Covid cases and deaths involving children reported
Covid-19 cases in Malaysia involving children leapt to 310,074 as at the end of August, which is 25 times more than the whole of last year. More...
Preprint: Coronaviruses with a SARS-CoV-2-like RBD isolated from bats of the Indochinese peninsula
“We found that the RBDs of these viruses differ from that of SARS-CoV-2 by only one or two residues”
Here we show that such viruses indeed circulate in cave bats living in the limestone karstic terrain in North Laos, within the Indochinese peninsula. More...