Category: Variants
Italy: 2 cases of Deltacron reported, but they’re NOT recombinant variants
Two Deltacron cases have been reported in Italy, one in Padua and the other in Trento. More...
Denmark: Omicron sub-variant BA.2 outcompetes BA.1
In December 2021, the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron accounted for just two percent of the samples analysed. More...
USA: New daily Covid case rate is higher than any previous GLOBAL wave
BNONews are reporting that the USA has recorded 926,693 new Covid cases today, a new 7 day record. More...
UK SAGE: New Omicron wave predicted for April 2022
“These projections are extended to the end of July 2022. More...
UK: Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for week 2, 2022
A new report out today by the UK Health and Security Agency gives figures for Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for the period in which Omicron became dominant in Britain. More...
EMA: Immune system could be overloaded by booster vaccinations
The European Medicines Agency warned this week that repeated booster shots are not a sustainable long-term plan. More...
Canada: Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay ‘significant’ financial penalty *1 UPDATE*
Quebec, in Canada, will charge a health tax to residents who are not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Is Sars-CoV-2 already targeting the vaccinated?
Will future variants of Sars-Cov-2 tailor themselves to target the vaccinated? More...
Long COVID in 2009: Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in SARS Survivors
From 2009, Long COVID in SARS survivors: Over 40% of the respondents had active psychiatric illnesses, 40.3% reported a chronic fatigue problem, and 27.1% met the modified 1994 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome. More...
Deltacron: a new variant that combines Omicron and Delta discovered in Cyprus *4 UPDATES*
Cypriot authorities have reported the detection of up to 25 cases of infection [now 77 cases – see updates] with a combined version of the Delta and Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which they have named “Deltacron”. More...