Category: B.1.617
Scotland: Delta runs rampant – record high coronavirus infection numbers for second day in a row
The Scottish Government has said that Scotland has recorded the highest number of daily coronavirus cases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic for the second day in a row. More...
Angela Merkel: quarantine the British to prevent Delta coronavirus variant
Angela Merkel has only just returned from the G7 summit in Britain where there was virtually NO social distancing*, NO masks, NO vaccine requirement and NO quarantine on return. More...
UK: G7 Superspreader Summit – Cornwall coronavirus rates soar above England average for the first time ever
Covid rates in Cornwall have risen above the England average for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
Israel: Delta coronavirus outbreaks – Binyamina designated orange, Modiin Maccabim-Re’ut designated yellow
The Israeli Health Ministry reported 110 new coronavirus cases in Israel in the last 24 hours on Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of active cases to 554. More...
UK: 30%+ hospitalisation vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta coronavirus
UK Vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi says more than 60% of hospitalisations for the Delta variant are for people who have not been vaccinated (or, in other words, more than 30% of hospitalisations are for people who HAVE been partially or fully vaccinated). More...
Russia: coronavirus revaccination planned for Moscow
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said that revaccination against coronavirus in the capital will take place with the Sputnik Light vaccine, which is also planned to be used to vaccinate labor migrants. More...
USA/UK: 2 separate clades of Delta coronavirus variant with K417N – AY.1 and AY.2
Through routine scanning of variation in Delta, a small number of sequences were detected which had acquired the spike protein mutation K417N. More...
Israel: increasing number of Delta coronavirus outbreaks in schools
In the past few days, several outbreaks have occurred in schools all over Israel, prompting the ministry to order students in three cities to wear masks and to consider issuing a stronger recommendation to get children ages 12-15 to get inoculated. More...
Nepal: nearly 20% of Delta coronavirus sequences have K417N mutation – mountaineers variant increasing
The Nepalese Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) said that out of 47 confirmed delta variant samples, nine were found to have K417N mutations.
Australia: another “fleeting contact” coronavirus infection case in Sydney
The New South Wales premier says there has been one new covid case, that has come about as a result of “fleeting contact” in a shopping centre, and there are new restrictions for the state. More...