Tag: covid
Dr. Peter Daszak says coronavirus origins could be known ‘within the next few years’
The origins of the coronavirus will most likely be known within the next few years, according to a key member of a World Health Organization-led investigation into the pandemic’s origins. More...
Belgium to vaccinate children against coronavirus after the summer
All children who want to will receive a coronavirus vaccine after the summer, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Thursday. More...
São Paulo, Brazil goes into coronavirus lockdown – 53 municipalities have 100% bed occupancy rates
The governor of São Paulo, João Doria, announced on Thursday 11th March 2021 that São Paulo will enter the emergency phase of the SP Plan as of Monday. More...
Lancet: Surveillance of coronavirus in Zimbabwe shows dominance of variants of concern – B.1.351 (501Y.V2) and A.23.1
In December, 2020, 95 (89%) of 107 sequenced cases contained mutations of concern, rising to 102 (98%) of 104 in January, 2021. More...
Nearly 400 infected with new coronavirus variant B.1.1.316 in Japan
Nearly 400 people in Japan have been infected with a new variant of the novel coronavirus different from those found in Britain, South Africa and Brazil, Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday. More...
Malta enters month-long coronavirus lockdown. Schools closed, services closed, sports activities stopped, hairdressers, gyms closed
Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela said in a press conference today that:
- All restaurants and ancillary services in hotels will close and only room service will be provided;
- Closure of non-essential shops and services including hairdressers, barbers, beauty shops, clothes shops, furniture and jewellery shops, toyshops and florists;
- Crossings to Gozo will be limited to essential travel and those who own property on the island;
- Groups gathering in public are being limited to four from the current six;
- All organised sports activities are banned;
- Pools, cinemas, museums, theatres, wedding receptions and religious activities banned except funerals;
- Non-urgent surgery to be postponed;
- Religious activities including Masses stopped except funerals;
- The measures apply until April 11
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In Milan, nine doctors and nurses test positive for coronavirus after the second dose of vaccine
Nine health workers have tested positive workers after receiving the second dose of the vaccine . More...
Walter Reed coronavirus study: “We found moderate evidence for 8 SARS-CoV-2 recombination events, two of which involved the spike gene”
We undertook recombination analyses of 158,118 public seasonal hCoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV genome sequences using the RDP4 software. More...
BMJ: B.1.1.7 “in addition to being more transmissible, seems to be more lethal”
Results The mortality hazard ratio associated with infection with VOC-202012/1 compared with infection with previously circulating variants was 1.64 (95% confidence interval 1.32 to 2.04) in patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in the community. More...
A third wave in Milan, Italy – the highest coronavirus infection rate is in the age group 15-19 years
In the last week of February 2021, the highest incidence of coronavirus infection (258 cases out of 100 thousand) is in the age group of high school children: 15-19 years. More...