Tag: SARS-CoV-2

• Monday, June 2nd 2025 - 09:18 UTC

  New SARS-CoV-2 variant under WHO close monitoring for its rapid spread

  

  The World Health Organization has launched a warning about the rapid spread of the NB.1.8.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has been detected so far in at least 22 countries, including Egypt, Thailand, the Maldives, and the United States (New York, California, Arizona, Ohio, Washington, and Rhode Island).

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 07:15 UTC

  Belgian researchers find new angle to tackle SARS-CoV-2

  

  Belgian scientists have developed a mechanism that could potentially prevent the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting humans, according to a paper published Tuesday in Nature.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 11:46 UTC

  WHO confirms Omicron (B.1.1.529) as a SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

  

  The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behavior of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to assess the SARS-CoV-2 variant: B.1.1.529.

• Tuesday, October 26th 2021 - 00:31 UTC

  COVID-19 infections back on the rise

  

  COVID-19 had been relatively calm in Argentina until last week the number of cases began soaring again, with 7667 infections detected against 946 the week before.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 17:54 UTC

  Russia decrees “soft” quarantine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from spreading

  

  Russian health authorities decreed a shutdown from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7 in a move to curb COVID-19 infections, it was announced, after 1,036 deaths in the last 24 hours were reported.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 07:24 UTC

  What’s the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?

  

  By Paul Griffin (*) - This week the World Health Organization named a new “variant of interest” of the coronavirus, called the Mu variant. It was first found in Colombia in January 2021 and has been found in about 39 countries so far.

• Sunday, June 21st 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Waste water analysis in Europe advance the Covid 19 pandemic two/three months before fist reported cases

  

  The coronavirus was already present in two large cities in northern Italy in December, over two months before the first case was detected, a national health institute study of waste water has found.