Category: Omicron
Portugal: Daily Covid-19 deaths now exceeding those of last winter wave
Portugal’s BA.5 wave is showing just how difficult things might get in Europe over the next few months, as Covid-19 cases and deaths are now close to, or have already exceeded, those of the winter wave of 2021/2022. More...
UK: Summer Covid-19 wave kicks off
There’s a lot of evidence accumulating in both UK government figures and from other sources that suggests a new summer wave of Covid-19 may have kicked off in the UK, possibly spurred on by the Jubilee celebrations in early June 2022. More...
Denmark: BA.5 sequences up by 6.5% in one week
The latest SARS-CoV-2 sequencing figures from Denmark show a marked increase for Omicron subvariant BA.5 (shown in red), which is up by 6.54% in one week, from 10.34% to 16.88%. More...
The peer reviewed child vaccine study that Twitter is trying to censor
We provide a link to a JAMA network peer-reviewed study that Twitter would prefer you didn’t read. More...
Portugal: 20% of all Covid-19 pandemic infections have occurred since BA.5 was first reported
The almost 990,000 confirmed cases in April and May 2022 represent 21% of infections since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, while the 1,455 deaths constitute about 6% of total deaths. More...
Denmark: BA.5 up 135% in a month
The latest weekly epidemiological file for Denmark has just been published. More...
UK: 2 million people suffering with Long Covid
An estimated 2 million people living in private households in the UK (3.1% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 1 May 2022. More...
Long Covid: Lingering cough more common in Omicron patients
Patients suffering from COVID-19 after-effects were more likely to have persistent coughs and fatigue if they were infected with the Omicron variant instead of the Delta or other strains, a survey showed. More...
Spillover of new BA.1 sublineage from persistently infected COVID patient into the community
“The new BA.1 sub-lineage transmitted to five independent cases, including two reported in GISAID from a different surveillance effort”…
Gisaid: BA.1 sublineage with T6001C and S mutations: S:E96D, S:L167T, S:R346T, S:L455W, S:K458M, S:E484V, S:H681R, S:P688V, detected in New York, USA #663. More...
USA: BA.2.12.1 is now the dominant Covid variant at 58% of sequences
The CDC has just updated its Covid variant tracker, and it shows that the BA.2.12.1 Omicron subvariant has outcompeted BA.2, and is the dominant variant in the US, having been found in 57.9% of genome sequences. More...