Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
Preprint: Persistent circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike is associated with Long Covid
We detected SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen in a majority of PASC patients up to 12 months post-diagnosis, suggesting the presence of an active persistent SARS-CoV-2 viral reservoir. More...
Denmark: BA.5 set to outcompete BA.2 this week
Denmark’s latest Covid-19 weekly trends report has just been published, and it shows a big increase in BA.5 infections over the past week. More...
Germany: Fourth Covid vaccination offered for “a quieter and symptom-free summer”
Germany’s health minister Karl Lauterbach has announced plans to offer every citizen a fourth Covid vaccination so that they can have “a quieter and symptom-free summer”. More...
Denmark: Risk assessment for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.5, BA.2.12.1 and BA.4
The sub-variants provisionally amount to 21% (BA.5) and 12.4% (BA.2.12.1) per June 8 2022. More...
France: BA.5 at 18% of sequences in week 22, 2022
Detection of BA.4 (1.1%) and BA.5 (18.0%) on the rise according to the week 21 Flash Survey in France. More...
UK: 1 in 20 secondary school pupils have experienced Long Covid
A new UK ONS survey out today reveals the horrifying extent of Covid damage to Britain’s school kids, with one in twenty secondary school pupils and one in fifty primary school pupils experiencing Long Covid. More...
Monkeypox virus found in human semen
The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking into reports that the monkeypox virus is present in the semen of patients, exploring the possibility that the disease could be sexually transmitted, a WHO official has said. More...
Monkeypox research: 50% household attack rate
2016 research: “The household attack rate (i.e., rate of persons living with an infected person that develop symptoms of MPXV infection) was 50%.” More...
WHO: Mass vaccination is not required nor recommended for Monkeypox
The World Health Organisation has updated their guidance on Monkeypox vaccinations today. More...
Portugal: Daily Covid-19 deaths now exceeding those of last winter wave
Portugal’s BA.5 wave is showing just how difficult things might get in Europe over the next few months, as Covid-19 cases and deaths are now close to, or have already exceeded, those of the winter wave of 2021/2022. More...