Category: UK
UK: one week until B.1.617.2 Delta coronavirus variant takes off
9th June 2021: If the previous waves of Sars-CoV-2 in the UK are anything to go by, Britain is less than one week away from the B16172 Delta variant exploding into another full-blown national health crisis. More...
UK: What happens after June 21st 2021 – Britain’s coronavirus “Freedom Day”?
By Step 4 which will take place no earlier than 21 June, the UK government hopes to be in a position to remove all legal limits on social contact. More...
UK: The “mountaineers variant” – B.1.617.2 with K417N mutation
The Delta variant with the K417N mutation, also known as the “Mountaineers” variant, has cropped up 14 times in Japan, and 13 of those samples were in travellers from Nepal – mostly climbers from Everest expeditions. More...
Nepal: Health Ministry refutes “new variant” of coronavirus in Nepal
The Nepalese Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has said that no new variant of coronavirus has been detected in the country so far. More...
UK: “Everest climbers could have spread potentially more infectious and vaccine resistant’ variant
So, more of a “Western mountaineers” variant then?
Daily Mail story “Everest climbers could have spread ‘potentially more infectious AND vaccine resistant’ Nepal Covid variant“
UK: “Everest climbers could have spread potentially more infectious and vaccine resistant’ variant
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UK: Grant Shapps – “there’s a sort of Nepal mutation of the so-called Indian variant which has been detected and we just don’t know the potential for that to be a vaccine-defeating mutation”
Grant Shapps, UK Transport Secretary “we’ve seen two things really which caused concern. More...
Portugal: dropped from UK travel green list after just two weeks
Portugal is axed from UK’s green list and relegated to the Amber list. More...
The “Nepal Variant” – does it exist or is it just racist fearmongering?
There’s plenty of coverage in the UK press today about a so-called “Nepal Variant” of Sars-CoV-2. More...
Portugal: could be taken off the UK’s coronavirus travel green list for having the same infection trajectory as the UK
“UK government Ministers and their medical advisers will meet on Thursday to decide whether Portugal should be dropped from the green list and instead rated amber, requiring holidaymakers to quarantine for 10 days on their return and pay for two PCR tests. More...
Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus for sale online in project financed by the European Commission
Wuhan Institute of Virology viruses for sale – Zika virus at just $500! More...