The French Government announced a four-week lockdown in Paris and parts of northern France due to the transmission of the highly contagious COVID-19 variants coupled with a slow vaccination rollout.[62] 16.03 Total COVID-19 cases surpasses 120 million. ...
Myanmar extended its COVID-19 preventive measures until November 30, the Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19 has said in a statement. TIMELINE 09:23, 02-Nov-2022 Chinese mainland records 465 new confirmed COVID-19 cases The Chinese mainland recorded 465 conf...
Immunology has illuminated the darkness of the COVID-19 pandemic — but what has been the impact of the pandemic on the immunology community? Editorial16 Mar 2021 Nature Reviews Immunology Will SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern affect the promise of vaccines? This Comment discusses how the emergin...
The drug, developed by a research team from Peking University led by Professor Xie Xiaoliang and Beijing DanXu Pharmaceuticals, can protect against COVID-19 variants with a lower production cost – about one-third of other candidates, Xie toldScience and Technology Daily. According to...
This is partly because of the threat of new variants and how they might disrupt the current vaccine programme. One step already ruled out by government is the introduction of vaccine passports. Those inoculated will simply receive a Health Service card with the dates of the...
COVID-19 Intervention Timeline in Canada. Ottawa: CIHI. [Google Scholar] Coelho, Flávio, Raquel Lana, Oswaldo Cruz, Daniel Villela, Leonardo Bastos, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Jessica Davis, Alessandro Vespignani, Claudia Codeço, and Marcelo Gomes. 2020. Assessing the spread of COVID-19 in ...
The overall picture emerging from our analysis shows that vaccine inequity, in both the number of doses available and the timeline of delivery, drastically reduced the impact of vaccination campaigns in the group of LMIC studied. The emergence of new variants, featuring higher transmissibility and ...
a new verdict had emerged. Vaccines were unable to halt transmission in the presence of escape variants; thus, here too, mandates failed to meet the ethical pre-requisite of benefit to others, as a vaccinated person could still spread the virus. A study in the New England Journal of Medicin...
randomized trials and observational studies on Covid-19 vaccines and consistently find that “vaccine efficacy is substantially greater against severe disease than against any infection; in addition, vaccination appears to be substantially protective against severe disease from all the main viral variants....
Our analysis was the first to provide Japanese policymakers and the public with the outlook of COVID-19 infection that incorporates the effects of rising shares of Alpha and Delta variants. As discussed in Sect.5.2, we began to incorporate the effects of the rising share of the Alpha variant...