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Israel: Hospital acquired infections despite full PPE, N-95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves
We have investigated a nosocomial COVID-19 outbreak involving the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among a highly vaccinated population.… ...More...
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals in healthcare settings despite medical masks and eye protection
We describe 3 instances of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission despite medical masks and eye protection, including transmission despite the source person being masked, transmission despite the exposed person being masked, and transmission despite both parties being masked.… ...More...
Canada: 82% Delta vaccine breakthrough in Calgary hospital coronavirus outbreak
An outbreak of the Delta coronavirus variant at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary has seen 16 patients and six health-care workers tested positive for the variant. … ...More...
Finland: 80% vaccine breakthrough in hospital with B16172 Delta coronavirus variant – PPE no longer effective – UPDATED
In Kanta-Häme hospital epidemic, about 80% of those infected with corona have received at least the first dose of vaccine.… ...More...
India: 16% vaccine breakthrough in Delhi hospital coronavirus study
A small-scale study on 113 healthcare workers who had received at least one vaccine dose at a private hospital in Delhi found that 18 tested positive for Covid but all except one had mild symptoms. … ...More...
UK hospitals ‘swamped’ with patients seeking help for AstraZeneca side effects
People who have had the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine are seeking help at A&E despite having only mild side-effects such as headaches, in the wake of the controversy over whether the jab causes blood clots.… ...More...
France: nearly 5,000 Covid-19 patients in intensive care in French hospitals, second coronavirus peak now exceeded
With 4,974 Covid-19 patients registered in intensive care on Monday, the peak of the second wave of the epidemic in the fall has been exceeded, according to daily figures published on Monday by the French public health agency.… ...More...
Belgium: One in four coronavirus patients is in critical care
The number of patients being treated for Covid in intensive care in Belgium has doubled in just over a month. … ...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...
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...
Number of Swedish coronavirus ICU patients has increased sharply in last 2 days in Sweden
A total of 240 covid-19 patients are in intensive care wards around the country, compared to only 197 ten days ago.… ...More...
About 20% of health workers in one Danish hospital vaccinated with the Astrazeneca vaccine experience mild side effects
The North Jutland Region of Denmark is to vaccinate one third of a hospital ward staff at a time instead of a half.… ...More...
Israel: Coronavirus patients on ECMO machines reach record 52
The Sheba Medical Center said “the new mutations cause much more serious illness and affect younger people,” adding that most of those connected to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines are in their forties and fifties, compared to the previous waves when most were in their sixties.… ...More...
One-in-eight ‘recovered’ coronavirus patients ‘die within 140 days’, a third are readmitted within weeks
Almost a third of recovered Covid patients will end up back in hospital within five months and one in eight will die, alarming new figures have shown.… ...More...