Tag: Delta variant
Australia: Sydney bracing for weeks of lockdown – ‘Do not leave your home’
Stunning headlines from the Sydney Morning Post today: “Do not leave your home’: Sydney bracing for weeks of lockdown”. More...
Pfizer Chief Scientific Officer: after six months there likely is the risk of coronavirus reinfection as antibodies wane
Pfizer Chief Scientific Officer Mikael Dolsten said the recently reported dip in the vaccine’s effectiveness in Israel was mostly due to infections in people who had been vaccinated in January or February. More...
Australia: Sydney still in lockdown after three weeks as Delta coronavirus variant cases increase
As Sydney’s lockdown entered its third week, there were signs of the outbreak spiralling, with a record increase of 38 new cases in the last 24 hours. More...
Argentina: coronavirus death toll hits 95,000 as Delta cases fly in
The Argentine Health Ministry confirmed Friday that two new Covid-19 cases with the Delta variant had been detected by migration officials, as Argentina’s death toll reached 95,000. More...
UK: Delta variant completely swamps North East England in less than four weeks
The North East of England has been completely swamped by the Delta variant in less than four weeks. More...
Delta coronavirus variant now dominant in the USA
The highly transmissible Delta variant is the most common strain of the Covid-19 virus circulating in the U.S., More...
Israel: Delta variant causing an increase in recorded coronavirus cases
Some 307 new coronavirus cases were identified in Israel on Wednesday. More...
UK: with 2 million Long Covid cases and 20,000 new coronavirus infections every day, is this really the right time to lift restrictions?
There is something deeply surreal about Britain’s current Covid-19 policy right now. More...
Australia: Sydney goes into coronavirus lockdown with 80 cases
Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong will go into a 14-day lockdown as health authorities try to regain control of a coronavirus outbreak that has ballooned to 80 cases. More...
Israel: 50% vaccine breakthrough for coronavirus cases in the last month
Half of those recently infected with Covid-19 in Israel were fully vaccinated. More...