Category: Health
Lancet: Surveillance of coronavirus in Zimbabwe shows dominance of variants of concern – B.1.351 (501Y.V2) and A.23.1
In December, 2020, 95 (89%) of 107 sequenced cases contained mutations of concern, rising to 102 (98%) of 104 in January, 2021. More...
Nearly 400 infected with new coronavirus variant B.1.1.316 in Japan
Nearly 400 people in Japan have been infected with a new variant of the novel coronavirus different from those found in Britain, South Africa and Brazil, Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday. More...
Malta enters month-long coronavirus lockdown. Schools closed, services closed, sports activities stopped, hairdressers, gyms closed
Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela said in a press conference today that:
- All restaurants and ancillary services in hotels will close and only room service will be provided;
- Closure of non-essential shops and services including hairdressers, barbers, beauty shops, clothes shops, furniture and jewellery shops, toyshops and florists;
- Crossings to Gozo will be limited to essential travel and those who own property on the island;
- Groups gathering in public are being limited to four from the current six;
- All organised sports activities are banned;
- Pools, cinemas, museums, theatres, wedding receptions and religious activities banned except funerals;
- Non-urgent surgery to be postponed;
- Religious activities including Masses stopped except funerals;
- The measures apply until April 11
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Long-Haul coronavirus symptoms presenting as a variant of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome or POTS
Major clinical centres in Sweden have witnessed an inflow of patients with chronic symptoms following initial outpatient care for coronavirus infection, suggestive of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. More...
In Milan, nine doctors and nurses test positive for coronavirus after the second dose of vaccine
Nine health workers have tested positive workers after receiving the second dose of the vaccine . More...
Brescia, Italy with 580 coronavirus cases per thousand, expected to go back into red zone next week
There are at least three factors for which Lombardy risks entering the red zone from next March 15th. More...
Walter Reed coronavirus study: “We found moderate evidence for 8 SARS-CoV-2 recombination events, two of which involved the spike gene”
We undertook recombination analyses of 158,118 public seasonal hCoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV genome sequences using the RDP4 software. More...
BMJ: B.1.1.7 “in addition to being more transmissible, seems to be more lethal”
Results The mortality hazard ratio associated with infection with VOC-202012/1 compared with infection with previously circulating variants was 1.64 (95% confidence interval 1.32 to 2.04) in patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in the community. More...
Antibody resistance of coronavirus variants B.1.351 (SA) and B.1.1.7 (UK)
“Findings on B.1.351 [South Africa variant] are more worrisome in that this variant is not only refractory to neutralization by most NTD mAbs but also by multiple individual mAbs to the receptor-binding motif on RBD, largely owing to an E484K mutation. More...
A third wave in Milan, Italy – the highest coronavirus infection rate is in the age group 15-19 years
In the last week of February 2021, the highest incidence of coronavirus infection (258 cases out of 100 thousand) is in the age group of high school children: 15-19 years. More...