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Advertisement Victoria has recorded 11 new local cases of COVID-19 as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton hit out at thousands of lockdown protesters who descended on the CBD on Saturday. The Health Department said the new locally-acquired cases are all linked to the current outbreaks and were in quarantine throughout their entire infectious period. There was one new case in hotel quarantine and there are currently 179 cases active in Victoria. Health authorities received 32,385 tests on Saturday...

The B1617 Covid-19 variant is spreading worldwide at 'frightening speed' and could aggravate the pandemic - particularly in countries with low vaccination rates.

Representational image of coronavirus | Image credit: crowf/freepik The B1617 Covid-19 variant is spreading worldwide at a ‘frightening speed’ and could aggravate the pandemic — particularly in countries with low vaccination rates, according to the latest assessment of the virus by experts here. The B1617 strain is becoming increasingly dominant worldwide and this will not be the last time that the virus mutates, the Strait Times reported on Sunday. What is frightening is the speed at wh...

Read more about B1617 variant spreading worldwide at frightening speed: Experts on Business Standard. The B1617 Covid-19 variant is spreading worldwide at frightening speed and could aggravate the pandemic -- particularly in countries with low vaccination rates

The B1617 Covid19 variant is spreading worldwide at frightening speed and could aggravate the pandemic particularly in countries with low vaccination rates according to the latest assessment of the virus by experts here

And this will not be the last time that the virus mutates, the experts added. Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapores (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, told The Straits Times on Saturday (May 29): "What is frightening is the speed at which this variant is able to spread and circulate widely within the community, often surpassing the capability of contact-tracing units to track and isolate exposed contacts to break the transmission chains. "It has the pot...

IT is a fact of life for the Chinese government and Chinese public that they will have to live with a hostile, ideologically and racially discriminato...

coronavirus 13 hours ago “Here in the UAE, we are optimistic, but we are realistic and we are practical,” UAE Minister of State and Expo 2020 Dubai Director-General Reem Al Hashimy told CNBC on Tuesday. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Rogue virus variants, the global vaccine rollout and international travel restrictions are being closely monitored as Expo 2020 Dubai draws close. The in-person mega… coronavirus 15 hours ago