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JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) — Israel has identified a case of a Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations first detected in South Africa, the health ministry said Friday. “The variant discovered in southern African states has been identified in Israel,” the ministry said, adding it was recorded “in a person who returned from Malawi”. Two more cases were detected in “people returning from abroad”, it said, adding that they had been placed in quarantine. […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Governments across Europe rushed on Friday to bolster their defences against a fresh coronavirus spike, as South Africa announced it had detected a new Covid-19 strain that scientists fear could torpedo efforts to beat the pandemic. In recent weeks the continent has been in the throes of surging cases and violent riots, wrestling with booster programmes and dramatic lockdowns to stem the tide as its death toll surpassed 1.5 […]
High number of mutations of B.1.1.529 raise alarm bells, as PHL eases restrictions for fully vaccinated passengers from “green” countries starting Dec. 1 (Eagle News) – The Philippines is closely monitoring the developments in South Africa and in Hong Kong where a new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been detected, given the name B.1.1.529, which is found to have a “very high number of mutations, with a concern for predicted immune invasion […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets and oil prices sank while safe havens rallied on Friday over fears of a new Covid-19 variant that scientists warn could be more infectious than Delta and more resistant to vaccines, dealing a blow to the global recovery. The B.1.1.529 strain has been blamed for a surge in fresh cases in South Africa and has already cropped up in Hong Kong, with the World Health Organization due to […]
by Susan NJANJI Agence France Presse JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Scientists in South Africa said Thursday they had detected a new Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers. The number of daily infections in Africa’s hardest-hit country has increased tenfold since the start of the month. “Unfortunately we have detected a new variant which is a reason for concern in South Africa,” virologist Tulio […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Fully vaccinated people were 11 times less likely to die of Covid and 10 times less likely to be hospitalized compared to the unvaccinated since highly contagious Delta became the most common variant, US health authorities said Friday. The data came from one of three new papers published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all of which underscored Covid vaccines’ ongoing effectiveness against severe outcomes. For reasons […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bbnuhnu1c (Eagle News) – Balitalakayan interviews Dr. Benny Atienza, president of Philippine Medical Association (PMA) who stressed the importance of the public observing the minimum health protocols amid the continuing rise in Delta cases. He also explained the difficult situation that health and medical frontliners face amid rising Delta cases where almost all hospitals are full. Even non-COVID patients who are being treated in the hospitals are also affected by infections, Atienza said in […]
Total Delta variant cases in the country hits 2,068 (Eagle News) – The Department of Health reported 279 additional Delta variant cases bringing the total infections for this variant to 2,068. All regions in the country are now affected by the Delta variant as the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) found five Delta variant cases in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). “Of the additional 279 Delta variant cases, 245 […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as investors tried to assess whether the global recovery will be resilient enough to withstand the fast-spreading Delta Covid variant, with optimism being tested by the stuttering rollout of vaccines and a spike in infections in some countries. China’s drive to tighten its grip on the world’s number two economy with a swathe of new regulations for private enterprises is also weighing on sentiment, while […]
by Françoise KADRI / Paul RICARD Agence France Presse As the Delta variant continues its global surge, experts are questioning whether the long-held goal of achieving herd immunity from Covid-19 through vaccination is still viable. Herd immunity is achieved when a certain threshold of the global population has either been inoculated against a pathogen or has recovered from infection. But whether or not it is achievable with Covid-19, with the regular emergence of more […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — The Delta variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 doubles the risk of hospitalization compared to the Alpha variant it has supplanted as the dominant strain worldwide, researchers reported Saturday in The Lancet. Only 1.8 percent of the more than 43,000 Covid cases assessed in comparing the two variants were in patients who had been fully vaccinated. Three-quarters were completely unvaccinated, and 24 percent had only received one […]
(Eagle News) – Some 362,700 doses of Pfizer vaccines were delivered on Wednesday night, Aug. 26, bringing to almost 5 million the total number of Pfizer doses in the country. The latest batch of government-procured Pfizer vaccines will benefit Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao and other areas with high COVID-19 cases. “From this shipment, both Cebu and Davao will receive 50,310 doses each while the remaining 262,080 doses will be brought to PharmaServ Express’ cold-chain […]
