Category: B.1.617
South Korea: 50% vaccine breakthrough for new Covid-19 cases
About half of new COVID-19 cases in the South Korea over the past two weeks were breakthrough infections.
China: first Covid cases detected at 2022 Winter Olympics
Organizers of February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing said Friday that two foreign athletes had tested positive for COVID-19 in ongoing test events for the Games. More...
UK: Predicting Sars-Cov-2 waves using repeating code snippets
We have been looking at the latest UK Covid chart overnight, and we think we may have spotted a repeating code snippet warning of an imminent new Covid wave for Britain. More...
Netherlands: 3 week Covid lockdown announced
In the Netherlands, a “mild” 3 week lockdown is announced. More...
USA: nearly 59,000 vaccine breakthrough cases, 468 deaths in Massachusetts
Nearly 59,000 fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have now tested positive for COVID-19 and 468 of them have died. More...
Austria: lockdown for the unvaccinated announced
UPDATE: ** Austria to go head with plan to lockdown the unvaccinated across the entire country **
Austria announces lockdown of the unvaccinated for the entire country – “random checks will be carried out”
Austria will impose a nationwide lockdown for people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming the first country in the world to do so, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced on Friday.
Germany: 44% vaccine breakthrough in over-60’s ICU patients
The intensive care doctor Uwe Janssens told the RND that the number of Covid patients with vaccination breakthroughs in intensive care units would continue to increase. More...
Germany: Covid cases jump 26% in one day, top 50,000 for the first time
The number of new corona infections in Germany has risen sharply – and exceeded 50,000 for the first time in the pandemic. More...
Germany: Bavaria declared a Covid disaster zone
Bavaria has proclaimed a nationwide disaster. Prime Minister Markus Söder declared the disaster due to “the current worrying situation in the corona pandemic. More...
Europe: explosive Covid growth rates, steeper than the winter wave of 2020 in many countries
Europe is seeing some stunning increases in the daily Covid case rate across much of the continent. More...