Category: PCR
UKHSA suspends routine Covid testing in hospitals and care homes
More than 800 staff are due to be lost from UK health protection teams across the country in the coming months, a reduction of 40% from the current 2,000 members of staff. More...
UK: Covid infection of 505 days is a new record
King’s College London researchers have described the longest known COVID-19 infection. More...
Preprint: Rates of COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with prior infection
Prior COVID-19 (in the unvaccinated) was associated with protection of 85% against any recurrent COVID-19, 88% against hospitalization for COVID-19, and 83% against COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization. More...
Spain: Fully boosted healthcare worker reinfected with SARs-CoV-2 after just 20 days
A fully boosted 31-year-old Spanish woman has contracted two different SARS-CoV-2 variants within three weeks. 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...
China: new subvariant of BA.1.1 found in Suzhou
China is battling record coronavirus infection numbers as its fight against the Omicron variant intensifies. More...
France: Nearly 700,000 Covid reinfections reported
685,858 possible cases of reinfection identified between March 2, 2021 and March 20, 2022, of which 95.2% since December 6, 2021 (start of distribution of the Omicron variant in France). More...
China: Shanghai empty on first day of Covid lockdown
Some pretty extraordinary images of Shanghai on it’s first day of Covid lockdown today. More...
Denmark Covid-19 Trends Report – Week 12
Denmark’s Covid-19 trends report for Week 12 of 2022 shows BA.2_H78Y is still stable at about 28% of sequences. More...
UK: ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey, March 2022
The latest UK Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey has just landed. More...