Category: Testing
Ireland: more Covid cases between Christmas and New Year than in the whole of 2020
More than 120,000 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Ireland since Christmas Day. More...
France: new Sars-CoV-2 variant B.1.640.2 with N501Y and E484K detected
Twelve SARS-CoV-2 positive patients living in southeastern France are infected with a variant with atypical mutations. More...
Faroe Islands: 63% breakthrough in triple vaccinated heathcare workers
21 out of 33 hospital employees from the National Hospital in the Faroe Islands were infected with Omikron at a private meeting in early December. More...
France, Italy and Spain all see new pandemic record infection figures
France: Covid-19: more than 90,000 cases in 24 hours in France. More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 persists throughout the human body and brain
“Our data prove that SARS-CoV-2 causes systemic infection and can persist in the body for months.” More...
London ablaze with Covid: Brixton has 4,445 Covid cases per 100,000 people
Central and south London are ablaze with Covid. Most areas of London have a case rate of over 1,600 per 100,000 people, and in Brixton, south London, the case rate is an astonishing 4,445 per 100,000 people. More...
Plague Island: highest ever UK Covid case rate, Omicron now dominant in London
Another dismal Covid record has been broken in Britain today. More...
Omicron BA.1 + R346K has *more* escape than Omicron V1
Uuugh.
More...Here are calculated binding scores (see https://t.co/jIPbndSdqp to mouse over points for mutations).
Denmark: ~90% of Omicron cases are double or triple vaccinated *17 UPDATES*
Denmark’s SSI has revealed that the vast majority of people currently infected with the Omicron variant are double or triple vaccinated. More...
Omicron in Norway: a warning to the world
Norway’s latest Covid figures show soaring numbers of infections and hospital inpatients, with big increases in both ICU and ventilated patients. More...