Category: Australasia
Australasian Coronavirus News
WHO: 650 probable cases of acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology
Six hundred and fifty probable cases of acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children have been reported to WHO from 33 countries in five WHO Regions between 5 April and 26 May 2022. More...
Research: The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox
“Using a structured format, we describe the greater than 10-fold increase in confirmed, probable, and/or possible monkeypox, cases over the past 5 decades, from 48 cases in the 1970s to 520 cases in the 1990s. More...
Monkeypox pandemic predicted in March 2021 to kill 270 million *1 Update*
In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. More...
Preprint: Enhanced Fusogenicity of BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1
“We found that the new Omicron subvariants BA.4/5 and BA.2.12.1 were more resistant to neutralization by mRNA-vaccinated and boosted health care worker sera and Omicron-BA.1-wave patient sera than were the BA.1 and BA.2 variants.” More...
WHO: 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19
New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million). More...
2020 research: Hepatitis is common in children with Covid-19 MIS-C
“Hepatitis is common in children with MIS-C and is associated with a more severe presentation and persistent elevation of LFTs in many.” More...
Long Covid: 49% of COVID-19 survivors have persistent symptoms
Worldwide, 49% of COVID-19 survivors reported persistent symptoms 4 months after diagnosis, estimates a meta-analysis of 31 studies published late last week in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. More...
China: 16 cases of Omicron BA.2.3 reported in Yantai, Shandong
16 cases of Omicron BA.2.3, were reported on Monday in Yantai, East China’s Shandong Province, the first time the strain has been detected in the Chinese mainland. More...
UK study: Only a quarter of hospitalized Covid patients are fully recovered after one year
A UK study of more than 2,000 patients after hospitalization with COVID-19 shows only around 1 in 4 feel fully recovered after one year. More...
Australia: 12 Deltacron cases in Queensland, 1 in New South Wales
12 cases of the new Deltacron Covid strain have been detected in Queensland just hours after first appearing Australia. More...