There have so far been 16 cases of the new ‘Variant Under Investigation’, temporarily named B1.1.318 Another new coronavirus variant have been detected in the UK which has a mutation that may help it escape immunity. There have so far been 16 cases of the new ‘Variant Under Investigation’, temporarily named B1.1.318, Public Health England … Read more
After a steep decline in daily COVID-19 cases in New York City, daily infections are now staying stubbornly high at 3,700. The stagnation coincides with the arrival of a tempting suspect on the scene: a variant known as B1526 that first emerged in Upper Manhattan in November. As of the most recent data, from February … Read more
The hunt for the missing case of the Brazil coronavirus variant in England ‘should be easy’, an expert has said as the Department of Health continues its scramble to find them. A positive test from a home test kit done in mid-February was found to be the mutant P1 strain that officials are desperately trying … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted it did not perform contact tracing on flights that some of the earliest patients with the UK and Brazil coronavirus variants were on. In one weekly report, the federal health agency discussed a patient who traveled to the UK and came back infected with the … Read more
England’s missing case of the Brazilian coronavirus variant was someone from one of 379 households in the South East who took a home swab test in mid-February, Matt Hancock said today. The Health Secretary said the Department of Health is getting closer to finding the mysterious person who tested positive but didn’t give their contact … Read more
Search for England’s missing Brazil coronavirus variant case has been NARROWED to someone in one of 379 households in the South East, Matt Hancock reveals Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said Government still searching for patient Six cases of Brazil variant discovered in UK but one case yet to be identified Mr Kwarteng said ‘we are … Read more
Houston, Texas, is the first city in the US to identify all of the major coronavirus variants spreading in the US, according to a soon-to-be-posted pre-print. Meanwhile, scientists in Florida identified the state’s first case of the South African variant over the weekend, meaning it has all three of the imported variants. Florida already had … Read more
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE BRAZIL VARIANT? Name: B.1.1.248 or P.1 Date: Discovered in Tokyo, Japan, in four travellers arriving from Manaus, Brazil, on January 2. Why should we care? The variant has the same spike protein mutation as the highly transmissible versions found in Kent and South Africa – named N501Y – which makes the … Read more
Britain yesterday announced its first six cases of a Brazilian coronavirus variant that ministers had been desperately trying to keep out of the country. The strain — scientifically known as P1 — has mutated in a way that appears to make it more likely to infect people who caught other strains of Covid or who … Read more
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE BRAZIL VARIANT? Name: B.1.1.248 or P.1 Date: Discovered in Tokyo, Japan, in four travellers arriving from Manaus, Brazil, on January 2. Why should we care? The variant has the same spike protein mutation as the highly transmissible versions found in Kent and South Africa – named N501Y – which makes the … Read more