Tag: sars-cov-2
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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Long-Haul coronavirus symptoms presenting as a variant of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome or POTS
Major clinical centres in Sweden have witnessed an inflow of patients with chronic symptoms following initial outpatient care for coronavirus infection, suggestive of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. More...
Brescia, Italy with 580 coronavirus cases per thousand, expected to go back into red zone next week
There are at least three factors for which Lombardy risks entering the red zone from next March 15th. 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...
Chile vaccinates nearly a quarter of its population against coronavirus in a month, yet its infection rate is spiralling
Chile has begun administering second doses of Covid-19 vaccines as it presses ahead with an impressive vaccination campaign that has seen the Latin American nation become one of the fastest in the world. More...
High pollen count linked to coronavirus infection rates
A study has found that high pollen counts, partially affected by air humidity and temperature, contributed to a more than 40 percent increase in coronavirus infection frequency. More...
Covid symptoms, symptom clusters, and predictors for becoming a Longhauler
Roughly 32% of those reporting [long haul] symptoms at day 61+ in our study were initially asymptomatic at the time of SARS-CoV-2 testing. More...