Covid-19: Mystery UK person with Brazil variant found
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Covid-19: A new variant in the UK and a festival fallout over vaccines
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Covid-19: Search for Brazil variant case narrows and furlough set to continue
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A Virus Variant by Any Other Name … Please
New York Times – For more and to sign up click here 20H/501Y.V2. VOC 202012/02. B.1.351. Those were the charming names scientists proposed for a new variant of the coronavirus that was identified in South Africa. The convoluted strings of letters, numbers and dots are deeply meaningful for the scientists......
Brazil variant: Search for mystery case narrows to 379 households
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Virus Variant in Brazil Infected Many Who Had Already Recovered From Covid-19
New York Times – For more and to sign up click here In just a matter of weeks, two variants of the coronavirus have become so familiar that you can hear their inscrutable alphanumeric names regularly uttered on television news. B.1.1.7, first identified in Britain, has demonstrated the power to......
Fauci says Biden administration is taking new Covid variant in New York ‘very seriously’
CNBC – For more and to sign up click here Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, on January 21, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The......
Brazilian variant: Boris Johnson defends UK Covid border measures
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PM: ‘No reason’ to think vaccine won’t work against variant
The prime minister says people should not be overly concerned that a new coronavirus variant, first seen in Brazil, has been found in the UK. He added that Public Health England have advised that there isn’t a threat to the wider public. The new variant is thought to be more......
‘We need to find variant case as soon as possible’
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi MP says he is working “with several data points” to try to locate a person in England who has been infected with a concerning variant of coronavirus first found in Brazil. Pressed by BBC Breakfast’s Dan Walker on the potential “flaw in the system”, he explained......
UK hunts for missing person infected with Covid variant first detected in Brazil
CNBC – For more and to sign up click here A worker hands-out vaccination cards as members of the public receive vaccinations at a drive-through vaccine center in Hyde, near Manchester, U.K., on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.K. health officials are anxious to trace......
Covid-19: Officials hunt Brazil virus variant case in England
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Covid-19: Brazil ‘variant of concern’ detected in UK
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Up to six cases of Manaus variant of coronavirus detected in UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Up to six cases of the variant of coronavirus first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus have been detected in Britain for the first time, English health officials said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: Two women walk past a closed tea room, amid the outbreak of the......
Hospitalisation risk 64% higher with UK coronavirus variant: Danish study
FILE PHOTO: Citizens are tested for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Arena Nord in Frederikshavn, Northern Jutland, Denmark November 7 2020. Claus Bjoern Larsen/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Danish study has found that people infected with a more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain have a higher risk......
COVID variant cases confirmed at two other Michigan prisons
Detroit News – For more and to sign up click here Inmate transfers were responsible for new cases of a highly contagious coronavirus variant at prisons in Macomb County and a Jackson prison health facility, a Michigan corrections official said Friday. Michigan Department of Corrections officials said late Tuesday they were working to......
Pfizer says South African variant could significantly reduce vaccine protection
(Reuters) – A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine by two-thirds, and it is not clear if the shot will be effective against the mutation, the companies said on Wednesday. The study found the vaccine......
90 cases of COVID-19 variant found in Ionia prison, state says
Detroit News – For more and to sign up click here State health officials Tuesday reported 90 cases of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7. in an Ionia prison after identifying one case last week. Results from daily testing of prisoners and staff at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility found 88 prisoners and two......
U.K. Virus Variant Is Probably Deadlier, Scientists Say
New York Times – For more and to sign up click here LONDON — British government scientists are increasingly finding the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain to be linked to a higher risk of death than other versions of the virus, a devastating trend that highlights the serious risks......
Covid: Victoria state to enter third lockdown after outbreak of UK variant
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