Tag: covid
Portugal: dropped from UK travel green list after just two weeks
Portugal is axed from UK’s green list and relegated to the Amber list. More...
The “Nepal Variant” – does it exist or is it just racist fearmongering?
There’s plenty of coverage in the UK press today about a so-called “Nepal Variant” of Sars-CoV-2. More...
Portugal: could be taken off the UK’s coronavirus travel green list for having the same infection trajectory as the UK
“UK government Ministers and their medical advisers will meet on Thursday to decide whether Portugal should be dropped from the green list and instead rated amber, requiring holidaymakers to quarantine for 10 days on their return and pay for two PCR tests. More...
Preprint: “Antigenic minimalism as an emerging evolutionary strategy for coronavirus to evade immune responses”
“..we generated clinically annotated SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequences and identified deletions within this NTD antigenic supersite in a patient with vaccine breakthrough infection (Δ156-164) and other deletions from unvaccinated severe COVID-19 patients that could represent emerging deletion-prone regions. More...
Vietnam: 4,000 people from Bac Giang quarantined after coronavirus outbreak
Bac Giang province will move all 4,000 workers and people at the Covid-19 outbreak in Nui Hieu village, Quang Chau commune, Viet Yen district, to concentrated isolation. More...
Vietnam: Young coronavirus patients with no underlying health conditions have ‘white lungs after a few days of Covid-19 symptoms’
Deputy Director of the Medical Examination and Treatment Administration, Vietnamese Ministry of Health, assessed that young people without underlying diseases develop lung damage very quickly, just a few days after symptoms appear white on both sides of the lungs. More...
Israel: some myocarditis cases linked to coronavirus vaccines
“There is a likelihood of a connection between receiving a second dose of vaccine and the onset of myocarditis in young men aged 16-30.” More...
Preprint: B.1.617 coronavirus variants show enhanced spike cleavage by furin
“The spike (S) glycoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in 2019 contained a suboptimal furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction with the sequence 681 PRRAR/S 686. More...
Spain: SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus found in Barcelona sewage in March 2019
“SARS-CoV-2 was detected in Barcelona sewage long before the declaration of the first COVID-19 case, indicating that the infection was present in the population before the first imported case was reported. More...
Italy: WHO retests patient samples from September 2019 that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RBD-specific antibodies
Samples from a study suggesting the coronavirus was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been retested at the World Health Organization’s request, two scientists who led the Italian research said. More...