Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
UK ONS: 2.7% of the British population reporting Long Covid symptoms
An estimated 1.7 million people living in private households in the UK (2.7% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 5 March 2022
The estimates presented in this analysis relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants who responded to a representative survey, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 syndrome in the full population. More...
France: XD Deltacron recombinant update
France has issued its latest epidemiological update which gives more details on the growth and characteristics of the XD Deltacron recombinant. More...
UK: XE growth rate now 12.6% higher than BA.2
“Earlier published growth rates for XE were not significantly different from BA.2, but using the most recent data up to 30 March 2022, XE has a growth rate 12.6% above that of BA.2. More...
EMA: “Too early to consider using a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines”
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and EMA’s COVID-19 task force (ETF) have concluded that it is too early to consider using a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax) in the general population. More...
Preprint: 100% symptomatic infection with XD recombinant
“This recombinant (XD) exhibits immune escape properties similar to Omicron, while its behavior in mice expressing the human ACE2 receptor is more similar to Delta.” More...
Spain: SARS-CoV-2 spillover infection into wild otters in Valencia
“We present evidence of spillover infection of wild mustelids by reporting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in a Eurasian river otter found near a water reservoir in the Valencian Community, Spain.” More...
Thailand: first cases of XE and XJ recombinants reported
Thailand has reported its first cases of Omicron XE and XJ. More...
Sociopathic narcissist squatting in No 10 Downing Street allowed Covid parties
“It is deeply, deeply contemptible that not just the PM but senior civil servants have allowed such people to have their reputations attacked in order to protect the sociopathic narcissist squatting in the No 10 flat.” More...
Netherlands: BA.1.1/BA.2 recombinant designated XM
A recombinant SARS-CoV-2 variant originally sequenced in the Netherlandshas been designated XM. More...
France: Nearly 700,000 Covid reinfections reported
685,858 possible cases of reinfection identified between March 2, 2021 and March 20, 2022, of which 95.2% since December 6, 2021 (start of distribution of the Omicron variant in France). More...