Category: Delta
Europe: all-time Covid infection record broken by growing winter superwave
Europe has broken through its all-time high for Covid cases, and is seeing sharp increases in infections right across the continent. More...
Denmark: huge queues at Covid test centres as infection rates soar
Denmark has seen large queues at Covid test centres across the country today as its all-time Covid infection record looks likely to be broken within days. More...
Ireland: new restrictions to prevent Covid winter wave
Working from home, midnight closing time for hospitality among measures announced by Irish Taoiseach. More...
Germany could soon register up to 400,000 Covid infections a day without mitigations
Germany could register up to 400,000 infections of Covid 19 a day if measures are not established that lead to a clear reduction of contacts, according to a new study. More...
USA: Covid blizzard in Minnesota – 72,628 vaccine breakthrough cases, 519 deaths
“We are in the middle of a COVID blizzard right now in Minnesota,” state infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said. More...
Preprint: Genome recombination between Delta and Alpha variants of SARS-CoV-2
Prominent genomic recombination has been observed between the Delta and Alpha variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) isolated from clinical specimens in Japan. More...
Germany: “We do not have a pandemic of the unvaccinated”
Berlin virologist Christian Drosten: “We do not have a pandemic of the unvaccinated, we have a pandemic,” he emphasized. More...
The 2021 winter wave will be the largest Covid wave so far
It looks like the 2021 Covid global winter wave will be a much larger repeat of the 2020 winter wave, with Europe and North America being the biggest contributors of new Covid cases again. More...
Netherlands: new pandemic record for Covid cases
The Netherlands exceeded its previous record for new Covid cases yesterday, just hours after new Covid restrictions were announced. More...
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.