Category: Health
Australia: 12 Deltacron cases in Queensland, 1 in New South Wales
12 cases of the new Deltacron Covid strain have been detected in Queensland just hours after first appearing Australia. More...
Italy: Two cases of XJ recombinant confirmed in Reggio Calabria
“A new variant of Omicron, called XJ was isolated for the first time in Italy from a laboratory in Reggio Calabria. More...
India: XE and XM recombinants reported in Gujurat
India has confirmed its first cases in the XE and XM recombinant variants in Gujurat. More...
BMJ: If we are no longer following the science, what are we following?
British ministers have now abandoned any pretence that they are “following the science” on Covid-19. More...
Up to one hundred times more super-spreaders with Omicron
“A much larger proportion of individuals infected with the new variants are high, very high or super-emitters of airborne viruses: for the original wild type, one in 1,000 infected was a super-emitter; for Delta one in 30; and for Omicron one in 20 or one in 10, depending on the viral load estimate used. More...
Canada: Ontario Risk Assessment for BA.2 to April 5, 2022
“Close monitoring of epidemiological trends since March 21, 2022 (date of mask mandate removal) suggests a corresponding temporal association with a subsequent increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases, percent positivity, and hospitalizations.” More...
WHO: 800 million Covid infections in Africa
Up to 65% of Africans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, a World Health Organization (WHO) analysis finds. More...
UK ONS: 2.7% of the British population reporting Long Covid symptoms
An estimated 1.7 million people living in private households in the UK (2.7% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 5 March 2022
The estimates presented in this analysis relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants who responded to a representative survey, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 syndrome in the full population. More...
France: XD Deltacron recombinant update
France has issued its latest epidemiological update which gives more details on the growth and characteristics of the XD Deltacron recombinant. More...
UK: XE growth rate now 12.6% higher than BA.2
“Earlier published growth rates for XE were not significantly different from BA.2, but using the most recent data up to 30 March 2022, XE has a growth rate 12.6% above that of BA.2. More...