Tag: infection
Beijing clamps down to fight Covid surge
“Just one night after announcing it was entering the “wartime mode,” North China’s Hebei Province, which neighbors Chinese capital Beijing, began putting in place various COVID-19 prevention measures on Wednesday amid a sudden spike in coronavirus infections, including controls on highways passing through Hebei leading to Beijing and other provinces, stopping sales of railway tickets to Beijing, suspending classes in schools, implementing closed-off managements in residential communities in provincial capital Shijiazhuang, and taking sweeping nucleic acid tests. More...
Netherlands: The national lockdown has still not made a serious impact on the levels of coronavirus infection after three weeks
UK teacher Covid rates up to 333% above average
Covid rates among schools staff in some areas are as much as four times the corresponding local authority average, Tes.com More...
Study demonstrates that Raccoon dogs are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection
“Our experimental study demonstrates that raccoon dogs are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and can transmit the virus to direct in-contact animals.” More...
Experimental Infection of cattle with SARS-CoV-2 – “we demonstrated viral replication in two of the inoculated animals”
“We inoculated 6 cattle with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and kept them together with 3 uninoculated cattle. 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...
First case of coronavirus detected in wild animal
The first known case of coronavirus in a wild animal has been reported, leading to calls for widespread monitoring of wildlife. More...
All Dutch mink culled to prevent coronavirus mutations
All minks in the Netherlands have been culled
The mink sector in the Netherlands has come to an end. More...
Netherlands: More children testing positive for coronavirus
Despite a significant 24-percent fall in the number of new Dutch coronavirus infections reported on Tuesday, the total figures for Week 47 ending Tuesday morning were virtually flat compared to the previous week. More...
Russia to vaccinate mink against Coronavirus amid mutation fears
Russia plans to vaccinate its minks against the coronavirus after a mutated form of the virus found on mink farms prompted mass culls in Europe, the Defense Ministry’s Zvezda news channel reported Monday. More...