Category: Europe
European Coronavirus News
Potential Omicron BA.1/BA.2 recombinant variants in Denmark and Finland
More reports of a SARS-CoV-2 recombinant variants have surfaced today, this time between the two Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, with 43 sequences in Denmark, and eight sequences found in Finland. More...
Greece to fine 300,000 people for not being vaccinated
Greek authorities have reported that they will begin to fine some 300,000 people over 60 years of age for not having been vaccinated against the coronavirus. More...
UK Queen tests positive for Covid
The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, ahead of the expected ending of all coronavirus restrictions in England in the coming days. More...
Austria to drop all coronavirus restrictions
The Austrian government is easing almost all Covid restrictions from the 5th March 2022. More...
Man tests positive for Covid 28 times in the six weeks AFTER his death
The body of a Ukrainian man who died from drowning in Italy tested positive for Covid-19 as many as 28 times in the six weeks after his death. More...
Preprint: Recurrent Covid-19 episodes in HCW tended to be more severe
We describe 33 patients with recurrent COVID-19 and a positive PCR. More...
UK NERVTAG: Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 10 February 2022
UK SAGE NERVTAG have released an update of their long term evolution predictions for SARS-CoV-2 in a paper entitled “Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences? More...
Europe: potential Deltacron recombinants in Denmark, France, Netherlands
Not confirmed yet, but worth flagging, are potential Deltacron recombinants of Delta AY.4 and Omicron BA.1/BA.2 found in Denmark, France and Netherlands. More...
UK: February risk assessment for the BA.2 Omicron strain
The February 2022 risk assessment for the BA.2 strain from the UKHSA. More...
Denmark: Omicron BA.2_H78Y found in nearly 30% of samples – up 5% in one week
Denmark’s SSI has just released its latest Covid trend report which shows that the BA.2_H78Y subvariant of Omicron now appears in almost 30% of all sequences. More...