Category: Variants
France coronavirus “Breton Variant” French Health Department statement
Variant de clade 20C ayant émergé en Bretagne
Un cluster d’infections par un variant de clade 20C (« variant 20C/H655Y »), a été détecté dans un hôpital des Côtes d’Armor, avec des cas survenus entre janvier et mars 2021. More...
Breton variant: 13 cases of the new coronavirus strain confirmed
Public Health France has indicated that the Breton variant is limited to “a town in Côtes-d’Armor and the distribution of the 20C/H655Y variant therefore seems to be currently limited to this geographical area”. More...
7,398 schoolchildren, college and high school students in Ile-de-France affected by the coronavirus last week
7,398 schoolchildren, college and high school students in Ile-de-France affected by the coronavirus last week. More...
Record new coronavirus infection figures in Poland
The Polish Ministry of Health reports 35,143 new infections and 443 deaths from coronavirus. More...
U.S. halts distribution of Eli Lilly’s coronavirus antibody treatment bamlanivimab as a monotherapy
The U.S. government has halted distribution of Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody treatment bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) as a monotherapy just four months after it received FDA emergency use authorization, citing a sustained increase in variants of SARS-CoV-2 that are resistant to the monotherapy. More...
France: 45,641 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, more than 4,700 patients in intensive care
45,641 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in France in the past 24 hours, according to figures released on Thursday. More...
P.1 coronavirus variant the most transmissible among the current identified SARS-CoV-2 VOCs
The new P.1 variant was found to be about 2.6 times more transmissible (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 2.4–2.8) than previous circulating variant(s). More...
Genome Sequencing shows variants of concern and a novel coronavirus variant in India
“The analysis of samples from Maharashtra has revealed that compared to December 2020, there has been an increase in the fraction of samples with the E484Q and L452R mutations. More...
Finland: coronavirus variant resembling B.1.351 (South Africa) found in the Turku infection cluster
The virus variant of South Africa has been confirmed as the cause of the coronavirus infections among students in Turku, Finland. More...
Ninth case of Breton Variant of coronavirus found in France
“Professor Arnaud Fontanet, member of the scientific council, indicated Tuesday morning on on BFMTV that a ninth case of this Breton variant had been confirmed. More...