Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
WHO: “Several children already infected” with Monkeypox
Just two days after deciding that the international Monkeypox outbreak wasn’t sufficiently serious enough to warrant designating it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the WHO are already backtracking. More...
UK: Over 3 million symptomatic cases of Covid-19
The UK ZOE Covid app is reporting that, for the second time in just over three months, more than three million people in the UK have symptomatic Covid. More...
New subvariant of Omicron BA.5 designated BE.1
The new subvariant differs from the conventional BA.5 by three additional mutations (N:E136D, ORF1a:Q556K, ORF1b:M1156I). More...
UK: More than 1,000 cases of Monkeypox in Britain
Up to 26 June 2022 there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. More...
WHO altering documents relating to Monkeypox transmission
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have been caught editing out references to airborne transmission of Monkeypox from documents on their website. More...
Preprint: BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 substantially escape neutralizing antibodies
These data show that the BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 subvariants substantially escape neutralizing antibodies induced by both vaccination and infection. More...
Preprint: Covid-19 infection leading to bone loss
We assessed the bone mineral density (BMD) of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at diagnosis and at follow-up visits. More...
Germany: BA.5 now dominant with 50% of sequences
RKI: “The proportion of the omicron subline BA.5 was 50% in week 23, it has become the dominant variant. More...
Spain: SARS-CoV-2 at RECORD LEVELS in Madrid region wastewater *1 update*
New data from Spain today shows that wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2 in the Madrid region are at record levels for the entire pandemic, and are at near record levels for the city of Madrid itself. More...
Preprint: Monkeypox has far more mutations than expected
“Researchers found the current Monkeypox strain diverges from the original strain by 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and several mutations made the virus more transmissible.” More...