Category: Health
Indonesia: 350 healthcare workers catch coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated
More than 350 doctors and medical workers have caught COVID-19 in Indonesia despite being vaccinated with Sinovac. More...
Bruce Springsteen concert – those with Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccines not invited
Bruce Springsteen has laid down strict rules for attendees of Springsteen on Broadway, which reopens on 26 June at the St James theatre in New York. More...
Norway: 70 infected with Delta coronavirus variant – 7 were fully vaccinated
Approx. 70 Norwegians have been infected with coronavirus after two concerts in a culture house in Færder Municipality last week, and many of them have been diagnosed with the Delta variant – the variant that was first found in India. More...
Uganda goes into total lockdown as coronavirus infections rise
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday tightened restrictions in the country following a worrying rise in Covid-19 infections and deaths. More...
Russia: New “Moscow” coronavirus strain is Delta – Московский штамм коронавируса – Дельта
Russian newspapers are still referring to a new “Moscow” strain of Sars-CoV-2, however it seems that the strain may simply be Delta (B.1.617.2). More...
Russia: “Moscow” coronavirus variant – 1,705 new patients, 468 on ventilators, 71 deaths in one city in one day
Moscow has documented 6,805 new COVID-19 cases on June 15. More...
UK: Delta coronavirus variant could push R to 7 without mitigations says PHE chief
Dr Susan Hopkins, Public Health England’s strategic COVID-19 response director, told the Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament today that if the Delta variant B16712 was “unmitigated”, left to spread without any lockdown restrictions, the R number could become “greater than five and maybe up to seven”. More...
Peru: C.37 coronavirus variant named Lambda by WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that the coronavirus variant of COVID-19, commonly known as C.37, has been named Lambda. More...
India: second lion dies of coronavirus at Vandalur Zoo near Chennai
A 12-year-old Asiatic lion, Pathmanathan, has died from Covid-19 in Arignar Anna Zoological Park, popularly known as Vandalur Zoo, outside Chennai on Wednesday morning, a statement from the zoo authority said. More...
Preprint: surges in coronavirus cases associated with NTD deletions common in vaccine breakthrough infections or reinfections
Researchers find that surges in COVID-19 case numbers are associated with deletions in the SARS-CoV-2 genome in an antigenic site of the spike protein. More...