Countries should consider advising passengers to wear masks on long-haul flights to counteract the last subvariant omicron of COVID-19 Given its rapid spread in USAofficials said on Tuesday World Health Organization. In Europe, the XBB.1.5 subvariant is being detected in small but increasing numbers, WHO officials for Europe said at a news conference. Passengers should […]
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The new subvariant of COVID-19 arrives in South Africa
The new subvariant of omicronXBB.1.5, which is spreading rapidly in USAwas detected in South Africabut the scientists of that African country are not afraid that it will lead to a “big surge” of infections. “I don’t think there will be a big wave of infections with a lot of hospitalizations in South Africa due to […]
A fourth dose of anti-COVID vaccine provides marginal benefits against omicron, study reveals
Updated on 03/16/2022 07:50 pm A fourth dose of existing mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 may have only marginal benefits” for healthy young adults, according to a new Israeli study. The authors of the study, led by Gili Regev Yochaywrote that their research seems to indicate that the advantages of the three doses of the vaccine […]
COVID-19: Ecuador reports its first five cases of BA.2, a subvariant of omicron
Updated on 03/16/2022 03:43 pm The BA.2 subvariant of ómicron is already in Ecuador, with the first five cases reported in southern Guayaquil, the country’s second largest city, the Ministry of Public Health reported in a statement. The cases were reported on Tuesday by the universities that are in charge of doing the genome sequencing […]
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 […]
Pfizer will soon submit data from fourth dose of vaccine to FDA
Updated on 03/09/2022 06:22 am Pfizer Inc. will soon submit data to U.S. regulators on a fourth dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said. Bourla said he spent Tuesday morning reviewing new data from several flu vaccine studies. covidincluding one looking at the effects of a fourth dose of the currently […]
WHO reduces its recommended quarantine times before the omicron variant
Updated on 02/17/2022 01:00 pm The World Health Organization (WHO), which continues to recommend a 14-day quarantine for contacts with COVID-19 patients in places with a high incidence of the pandemic, reduced this time to seven days, in the context of the current wave linked to the omicron variant, with a high number of mild […]
PAHO: cases of omicron fall sharply in America, but deaths still rise
New infections of the omicron variant of the coronavirus fell 31% in the last week, but deaths still increased 5.6%, reported the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). PAHO director Carissa Etienne explained that the continent registered 3.3 million new cases and 34,000 deaths associated with COVID-19, chaining six consecutive weeks with increases in deaths. “We […]
WHO warns that ómicron moves to eastern Europe, an area with fewer vaccinated
The omicron variant of COVID-19 is expanding in Europe to the east of the continent, where in the last two weeks the number of new infections has doubled and there is a lower level of vaccination, the European office of the World Organization warned on Tuesday. of Health (WHO). “In the last two weeks, Covid-19 […]
Norway lifts all restrictions due to coronavirus pandemic
Updated on 02/12/2022 04:52 pm Norway announced this Saturday the immediate lifting of the latest restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, due to the fact that the omicron variant is more benign and the high rate of vaccination, and will no longer consider COVID-19 a serious disease. “We can relax the measures because ómicron does […]