Category: BA.1
Vietnam: Severe liver and brain damage in child after Covid-19 infection
A 13-year-old boy just recovered from Covid-19 suddenly returned to fever, red skin, red eyes, the doctor diagnosed multi-system inflammatory syndrome, brain damage.… ...More...
Japan: New BA.1/BA.2 recombinant discovered
Japanese researchers have detected a new type of the Omicron variant which is a recombination of the BA.1 and more contagious BA.2 strains of the Omicron.… ...More...
China: 16 cases of Omicron BA.2.3 reported in Yantai, Shandong
16 cases of Omicron BA.2.3, were reported on Monday in Yantai, East China’s Shandong Province, the first time the strain has been detected in the Chinese mainland.… ...More...
France: XD recombinant lacks a competitive advantage over BA.2
France has just published a new risk analysis for SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating in the country. The headline from the report is that the Deltacron recombinant XD is struggling to compete with Omicron BA.2.… ...More...
China: 50 SARS-CoV-2 sequences uploaded to Gisaid
Gisaid have published a report recently on fifty SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences uploaded by China which seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream media.… ...More...
UK ONS: 2.7% of the British population reporting Long Covid symptoms
An estimated 1.7 million people living in private households in the UK (2.7% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 5 March 2022
The estimates presented in this analysis relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants who responded to a representative survey, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 syndrome in the full population.… ...More...
SARS-CoV-2: New recombinants designated XG, XH, XJ, XK and XL
SARS_CoV-2 recombinants are being designated almost on a daily basis now. These are the latest strains:
XG: New lineage with 140 new sequence designations.… ...More...
Global: SARS-CoV-2 deaths at lowest level since March 2020
The global death rate from SARS-CoV-2 is plummeting. The death toll from the coronavirus on 27th March 2022 was just 2,309 according OWD.… ...More...
Bill Gates: “Omicron, is a type of vaccine…”
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was recently recorded as saying “Sadly, the virus itself, particularly, the variant called omicron, is a type of vaccine, that is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines.”… ...More...
SARS-CoV-2 potential recombinants in Brazil, Belgium, France, Netherlands, US, Finland, Puerto Rico, Spain
SARS_CoV-2 recombinants seem to have been popping up across the globe recently. We have listed some of the most recent examples below, with links to their various Github issue pages.… ...More...
Denmark Covid-19 Trends Report – Week 12
Denmark’s Covid-19 trends report for Week 12 of 2022 shows BA.2_H78Y is still stable at about 28% of sequences.… ...More...
Preprint: Identification of Deltacron recombinants in the United States
In this report, we describe viruses with recombinant genomes containing signature mutations from Delta and Omicron variants. These genomes are the first evidence for a Delta-Omicron hybrid Spike protein in the United States.… ...More...
China CDC: Deltacron is a “Grey Rhino” event
China CDC: The wolf is coming – Deltacron is a “Grey Rhino” event.
According to our preliminary analysis on the first “Deltacron” genome, recombination event only occurs in S gene.… ...More...
UK: Fifth Covid-19 jab in two years for the over 50’s planned
The UK Health Secretary has suggested that a fifth dose of a Covid-19 may be needed in the autumn of 2022.… ...More...