Updated on 03/16/2022 12:56 pm The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it will postpone its evaluation of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V against the COVID-19 coronavirus due to “the unstable situation”. Dr. Mariangela Simao, a vaccine expert for that UN agency, said WHO officials were going to Russia on March 7 to inspect the […]
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Persistent COVID would have a respiratory disease as a sequel
Persistent COVID can have the potentially long-lasting effect of small airway disease in which the lungs do not completely empty of air, which would occur regardless of the initial severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection. An investigation published in the journal Radiology and signed by the University of Iowa (USA) studied this trapping of air in the […]
Brazilian government corrects and says that deltacron cases are only suspected
Updated on 03/16/2022 10:15 am The Brazilian Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, who the day before announced the “confirmation” of what would be the first infections of the deltacron variant of coronavirus, he backed down this Wednesday and clarified that it is just suspicion. “The two deltacron cases I cited are still under investigation.” and […]
Israel announces discovery of unknown coronavirus variant combining BA.1 and BA.2
Updated on 03/16/2022 08:23 am The Israeli Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that it had detected two cases of contamination by an unidentified variant of the coronavirus, without apparent severity and combining subvariants BA.1 and BA.2. “This variant is not yet known in the world and the two cases were discovered thanks to PCR […]
Slowly, coronavirus infections rise again in Europe
Slowly and silently, the pandemic overshadowed by the invasion of Ukraine and other events in international politics, coronavirus infections are rising again in many European countries, although in most they are cases that do not correspond to a increase in hospitalizations. On Germany For the first time, 1,600 new infections per hundred thousand inhabitants have […]
Pfizer and Moderna bosses differ on fourth anti-COVID vaccine
Top executives at two of the biggest COVID-19 vaccine makers disagree on the need for a fourth dose for the majority of the world’s population. Pfizer Inc. CEO Albert Bourla said in an interview for CBS on Sunday that the protection from three vaccines will wane and a fourth dose is needed “right now”. Then, […]
Pfizer asks the US to authorize fourth dose of anti-COVID vaccine
Updated on 03/15/2022 08:44 pm Pfizer and its partner BioNTech on Tuesday asked US regulators to authorize an additional booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine for seniors, saying data from Israel indicates older adults would benefit. Nowadays, United States recommends two initial injections followed by a booster dose for everyone 12 years of age and […]
China returns to lockdown after spike in COVID-19 cases
Updated on 03/15/2022 07:50 pm China imposed the return of confinement in Jilin province after breaking a record of 5,000 new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, according to BBC. Due to this, 24 million people who reside in this northeastern area will have to face severe restrictions such as virtual classes, working remotely […]
The first two cases of deltacron are detected in Brazil: what is known about the new variant?
Updated on 03/15/2022 07:25 pm The Minister of Health of BrazilMarcelo Queiroga, confirmed this Tuesday that the first two cases of the new variant of COVID-19known as “deltacron”. It should be noted that the “deltacron” is the result of a merger between the delta and omicron variants. At the press conference, Queiroga pointed out that […]
Shanghai becomes a ghost town at risk of COVID confinement
Shanghai, one of the most populous cities in the world, took on the air of a ghost town in the face of the threat of confinement for its 25 million inhabitants due to an outbreak of COVID-19. Although the number of COVID cases is low compared to other countries, China is currently facing its most […]