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Israel has lifted its strict Covid-19 travel ban against ‘high risk’ countries, such as the US and UK, acknowledging that the spread of the Omicron variant has rendered such restrictions obsolete. Nachman Ash, the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Health, revealed on Thursday that travel would resume to and from …

In research published earlier this week ahead of peer review, scientists at Yale and the University of Washington School of Medicine said they found the mutation in a woman aged in her 70s, who was severely immunocompromised at the time she received Remdesivir due to cancer treatments.  Though such mutations …

A Friday report by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) looked at a series of hypothetical scenarios related to Covid-19 variants, finding it a “realistic possibility” that a mutation could appear with a case fatality rate comparable to SARS (10%) or MERS (35%), both of which belong to the …

The strain was first detected in January this year, but it has only now been deemed severe enough to be listed. According to the WHO classification system, variants are determined first to be designated for “further monitoring,” before being promoted to “of interest,” and then, finally, “of concern.” If the …

Ralph Veterinary Referral Centre cardiologist Luca Ferasin, who co-authored a new report on Covid-19 infections in pets, warned this week that they “have a strong suspicion of transmission from human to pet, but not vice versa.” Ferasin said that he did not “want to spread panic unnecessarily,” as the suspicions …

Dmitriev revealed that the Russia-produced vaccine is as effective against the new mutation as it is against other existing strains. “Sputnik V has repeatedly shown its effectiveness, despite previous mutations in the S-protein,” Dmitriev told the press, on Monday. Earlier Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed that Russia is following the …

The very same new coronavirus strain behind the current scare in Europe has been isolated in a laboratory at Celio Military Hospital in Rome. It was obtained from a person that had previously tested positive for Covid-19, the nation’s health ministry confirmed. “The Celio Scientific Department … sequenced a genome …

One of the latest strains of coronavirus, and currently the most common in the world, is called D614G.  Through tests on hamsters, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that this particular strain replicates faster and spreads more easily than …

However, the young to get rid of it easier. During the existence of the coronavirus has mutated, now he is not insured people of any age, but young survive the disease quite easily. So the Radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda” said the physician in Kommunarka Kamila tuichieva. She attributed this to the …

American domination in Puerto Rico lasts 120 years. It would seem that tropical island drew the lucky ticket of destiny in the nineteenth century. Decrepit Spanish metropolis lost a few colonies in the Caribbean sea without a fight – but Puerto Rico came under the direct control of the new …