Tag: coronavirus
Investigation of novel SARS-CoV-2 variant – Variant of Concern 202012/01
“Preliminary results from the cohort study found no statistically significant difference in hospitalisation and 28-day case fatality between cases with the variant (VOC-201212/01) and wild-type comparator cases. More...
Little evidence of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in study of 12,500 health workers
Antibody Status and Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers
“A total of 12,541 health care workers participated and had anti-spike IgG measured; 11,364 were followed up after negative antibody results and 1265 after positive results, including 88 in whom seroconversion occurred during follow-up. More...
Independent Sage: Place all regions of England in Tier 4 to suppress spread of coronavirus
Independent Sage:
#We believe that the government must immediately:
- Rescind a relaxation of the rules and ban household mixing on Christmas Day (apart from exemptions and pre-existing bubbles)
- Place all regions of England in Tier 4 to suppress spread of the virus as far as possible while scientists continue to learn more about the new variant.
New Nigerian coronavirus variant P681H “has the 501 mutation”
A new variant of the coronavirus, P681H, has been identified, this time in Nigeria, with a separate lineage from the variants found in the UK and in South Africa, John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said on Thursday. More...
Four people under observation in Germany after receiving 5 doses of Biontech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at once
“Eight employees of a German nursing home were mistakenly given five doses of Covid-19 vaccine, with no serious health consequences at this stage, according to Belga News Agency. More...
12 more UK B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant cases in Denmark, now 46 in total.
“The Statens Serum Institut (SSI) has received new sequencing results for the English virus variant SARS-CoV-2 Cluster B.1.1.7. More...
1 in 1,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 in just 10 months
A total of 331,116 Americans have died from Covid-19 as of 3 p.m. More...
BioNTech vaccine developer: ‘Coronavirus will stay with us for another ten years’
First effect of vaccination ‘in three months’
The German Biontech/Pfizer vaccine that wants to protect the whole world against corona, will not bring about a decrease in the sky-high infections this winter. More...
UK coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, N501Y found in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Two cases of British coronavirus mutation found in Amsterdam
A highly contagious mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which was linked to two weeks of rising infections in the United Kingdom has also been found in two people in the region of Amsterdam. More...
USA has only sequenced 51, 000 coronavirus samples from 17 million infections
Have we seen this variant in the United States? More...