BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The KP.2 sub-variant of COVID-19, which has become increasingly prevalent on a global scale, is unlikely to cause a new infection peak in China in the near future, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration said on Tuesday. As of Sunday, KP....
How many people are dying due to this variant? Currently based on the data it looks like for every 100 cases of COVID-19 there is approximately 1 death associated with it. At the present time it appears that in India the number of new cases of COVID-19 per 1 million is ...
The World Health Organization and US health authorities said Friday they are closely monitoring a new variant of COVID-19, although the potential impact of BA.2.86 is currently unknown. The WHO classified the new variant as one under surveillance "due to the large number (more than 30) of s...
Public health officials have said that they're well-equipped for the latest seasonal uptick in the virus, with COVID-19 tests and forthcoming vaccines expected to work for the variants on the rise around the country. But the appearance of a new "highly mutated" variant has raised questions...
XBB.1.5is a subvariant of theOmicron variantof the Covid-19 virus. In early 2023, medical experts describedXBB.1.5as the most infectious subvariant to date. When was XBB.1.5 first observed? XBB.1.5was first recorded in the US in October 2022. ...
As of January 13, 2023, there have been 270,744,353 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the whole of Europe since the first confirmed cases in January 2020. There were approximately 12.1 million new cases reported in the week beginning January 24, 2022, the highest number of ...
Both studies analysed cases of the new and old variant by linking community testing data with death data. "Based on these analyses, there is a realistic possibility that infection with VOC B.1.1.7 is associated with an increased risk of death compared to infection with non-VOC viruses," the...
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday it had detected 15 cases of XBB.1.16 and two cases of XBB.1.16.1, indicating that this new COVID-19 variant has been spread to China. The variant is also known as Arcturus. "Arcturus" is actually a Latinized version ...
August 7, 2023 / 5:45 PM PDT / CBS Sacramento SACRAMENTO — A summer wave of COVID-19 is hitting just as kids and teachers head back to campus. California is seeing a little more than a 10% increase in cases. "We really do need the updated vaccines," Professor and Chief of Pediatr...
BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- China is taking proactive measures to counter new COVID-19 cases caused by the JN.1 variant of the virus, which is spreading globally, China's health authority said Thursday. "China is routinely monitoring COVID-19 infections to determine the trend of infection...