Japan will reduce COVID-19 to flu status and relax rules even further.

COVID-19 is currently classified as a Class 2 disease in Japan, alongside SARS and tuberculosis, and is subject to restrictions on patient and close contact movement while permitting central and local governments to take emergency measures. Downgrading it to Class 5 would result in the abolition ...

Can Vaccine boosters stop the spread of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2?

In the past few months, there has been an increase in cases of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 in countries around the world, and has become a dominant variant in many countries. As per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Delta variant is more infectious than preexisting ones.

STUDY ESTIMATES SEROPREVALENCE OF SARS-COV-2 ANTIBODIES IN SOUTHERN ITALIAN POPULATION

HIGHLIGHTS

• A study has estimated seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Southern Italian Population.
• Most people covered in the study are adults and healthcare workers.

Recently, a study was carried out to estimate the seropreval...

OSAKA AND HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY FINDS A WAY TO ANALYZE COVID-19 MUTATIONS

Highlights –

• Osaka and Hokkaido University finds a way to analyse COVID-19 mutations.
• The university developed a system capable of analyzing genetic mutations of COVID-19 much quicker.
• a simple and efficient way to generate infectious...

WHO FRONTED COVID-19 TEAM VISIT WUHAN VIRUS LAB IN QUEST FOR VITAL LINKS

• A team of sleuths working on behalf of the World Health Organization made do with a visit on Wednesday to a major virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan, in its eternal search for clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
• The experts spent nearly ...

EDGC INKS DEAL WITH BABIRUS TO EXPORT COVID-19 TEST KITS TO DUBAI

• Korean genetic sequencing analyzer EDGC has signed an agreement with Dubai-based healthcare firm Babirus to deliver COVID-19 diagnostic test kits for the city's 2.55 million residents.
• The Incheon-based company echoed that it provided 100,000 DiaPlexQ kits to the United Ara...

AMPLE EVIDENCE THAT CORONAVIRUS WAS SCIENTIFICALLY ENGINEERED IN WUHAN LAB-CHINESE VIROLOGIST

• A Chinese virologist has gone on record stating in a video clip that she has scientific evidence that the novel coronavirus originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
• Dr. Li-Meng Yan is by profession a Chinese scientist. She had been conducting research on the novel coronavirus since la...

FIRST UNBORN BABY WITH CORONAVIRUS IN FRANCE

HIGHLIGHTS

• Doctors in France have recorded world's first recorded case of an unborn child with COVID-19.
• Child contracted COVID-19 inside the womb from its mother.
• Nature Communications reporters claim that baby's brain bore evidenc...

CHINESE RESEARCHERS SAY COVID-19 COULD BE TRANSMITTED SEXUALLY

According to few researchers in China, the novel coronavirus can persist in men’s semen for prolonged period of time even after they start recovering from it, which raises the possibility of virus getting transmitted sexually.
A small study was done at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, wh...

JAPANESE TOURISTS BANNED FROM SEVERAL COUNTRIES OVER COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Highlights:

• The United States has issued low-level travel advisory against Japan
• Other countries including Australia, Micronesia, Thailand etc. have banned entry of visitors directly from Japan

Japan and South Korea have reportedly r...

CORONA VIRUS KILLS 908, PROVES DEADLIER THAN SARS

Highlights:

• Death toll officially at 908
• WHO dispatches expert team to Beijing
• Chinese companies have called back people to work
• Schools to be shut

At the time of filing this report today, the ...

Should anyone be worried about the Coronavirus virus spreading?

The world's health authorities have been watching a new outbreak of the disease in China after the newly found Coronavirus was detected in one of China's major towns. Here's what you have to know and be worried about.

According to the World Health Organization, Coronavirus i...

EPIDEMICS: A CAUSE OF GLOBAL CONCERN IN 2020

China reported another death due to the outbreak of a SARS-like corona virus, named 2019-nCov or Wuhan virus. This is the fourth death in China caused by the virus. As the threat of a pandemic draws near, the city of the virus's origin, Wuhan, in Central China, continues to report an inc...

TWO DIE DUE TO NEW SARS-LIKE CORONA VIRUS IN CHINA

A new virus has been discovered that is causing a pneumonia outbreak in China. Two patients have died so far since Saturday even as others are being treated.  Many are on their way to recovery too. The virus causing this ailment is a coronavirus, which is said to be similar to the one that c...