Category: Health
AstraZeneca’s U.S. trial shows coronavirus vaccine is 79% effective
Preliminary results from a study examining the efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine indicate it is significantly effective at preventing severe illness from COVID-19. More...
Norway: 2 more patients dead following vaccination with AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
The Norwegian Medicines Agency has received two reports of deaths in patients at OUS (Oslo University Hospital)
Five patients with a combination of thrombosis, haemorrhage and low platelet count admitted to OUS after vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine have previously been reported. More...
Norway FHI: If nothing happens to you 14 days after taking the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, you are likely not in danger
If you have not had serious side effects 14 days after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine, you are probably not in danger of getting the rare course of the disease, the National Institute of Public Health (FHI) believes. More...
France coronavirus Breton variant: “It worries us as it is more difficult to detect by nasopharyngeal swab and can therefore go unnoticed.”
Will the measures announced be enough to curb the epidemic in France? More...
Galicia reports a new outbreak of coronavirus on a mink farm
SARS-CoV-2 detected in a mink farm in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. More...
Two dead wild mink infected with coronavirus found in Castellon, Spain
Europe’s first infected wild animals. The two dead infected wild mink were found in the Mijares and Palancia rivers, in a border area of Castellón with Teruel, where the only population of wild minks in the Valencian Community can be found. More...
Coronavirus transmission in team sports under investigation in Summit, N.J
According to information released by Summit City, NJ, a significant number of transmissions statewide and locally this week were reported as sports-related and, specifically, during game play, Samples are being tested for variant strains, when possible, to better determine how the virus is spread during team sports. More...
The South African and Brazilian coronavirus variants can now infect mice
Here we show that unlike the initial virus, VOCs are able to infect common laboratory mice, replicating to high titers in the lungs. More...
Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genomes involving lineage B.1.1.7 in the UK
A survey of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences from the UK has detected a number of variants that had been assigned to the B.1.1.7 lineage but which do not contain the full set of B.1.1.7 ‘lineage defining’ mutations. More...