A new subvariant of Omicron has emerged in New York City, and early reports suggest it could be the most contagious COVID strain yet. BA.2.12.1, which was first detected in the country last March, appears to be at least 25% more transmissible than its predecessor BA.2. The BA.2.12.1 strain, in particular, has been rising at …
by Fast Lab Two more Omicron COVID strains have been detected in the U.S. Most health experts and professionals now deem these strains more transmissible than the prevalent ‘Stealth Omicron’. Even though the majority of the population has been vaccinated, there’s been an alarming uptick in new COVID-19 cases across the country recently. The U.S. Centers for Disease …
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New York A COVID-19 Hotspot – Should We Be Worried? Upstate New York is a COVID-19 hotspot for virus transmission. That’s clear from the most recent color-coded map from federal health officials showing the virus’s progress across the United States. Source: CDC Green covers the majority of the country, indicating that those counties have modest …
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COVID in Shanghai – What’s Happening Shanghai, China recently became the center of media attention due to its alarming increase of new COVID-19 cases by the end of February. By March, authorities had started to impose lockdowns in an attempt to contain the outbreak. The restrictions initially included several neighborhoods but it eventually reached all …
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Everything We Know About Long COVID Long-COVID – yet another fear instilled in us all. COVID-19 has been looming over us like a great dark cloud for more than two years now – and despite global spending on extensive research on COVID-19 reaching 5 billion dollars (according to OECD), there is still so much about …
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Omicron Sub-variant Mutation ‘XE Variant’ Sweeps Across The UK – Here’s What We Know News of the rise of yet another Omicron variant, titled ‘XE’, has emerged from the UK this week – after first having been detected there on January 19th earlier this year. This ‘recombinant’ variant has been formed from one infected patient …
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‘Deltacron’, the ominous name leaves no questions unanswered about where this SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged from: a hybrid fusion of the Delta variant and Omicron, that have merged to create an entirely new mutation of Coronavirus – but should we be worried? A cause for concern To understand the potential that this strain may have, …
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New Omicron variant wreaks havoc in Hong Kong, creating panic in China It’s mid March 2022, over 2 years since COVID-19 began its reign of terror across the world. The majority of countries are now learning to “live with the virus”, with almost 5 billion people worldwide already having received their first COVID-19 vaccination, which …
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Can Omicron’s sub-variant, ‘BA.2’, also known as the ‘Stealth Variant’ evade RT-PCR testing? A new coronavirus variant has been discovered, sparking concern amongst the scientific community. Omicron’s sub-variant BA.2 was first detected in Europe in late January and has since spread across the world, becoming the dominant strain of all new COVID-19 infections in …
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It’s been almost two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This was ascribed to the number of fatalities attributed to the COVID-19 virus, which had risen to 171 by January 30, 2020. Fast forward to today, the number of fatalities has ballooned to …
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