As the WHO warns that more Covid-19 strains could pop up, a vaccinologist is assuring the public the current vaccines will still be effective
As the WHO warns that more Covid-19 strains could pop up, a vaccinologist is assuring the public the current vaccines will still be effective 12 January 2021
The Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil different to the highly infectious variants already found in the UK and South Africa.
But Auckland University s Helen Petousis-Harris says there could need to be some tweaks along the way, although the virus is changing much more slowly than the flu does.
WASHINGTON " U.S. health officials have created a website to help people find where they can get antibody drugs for COVID-19, medicines that may help prevent serious illness and hospitalization if used early enough after infection occurs. Two of these drugs " from Eli Lilly and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals " have been authorized for emergency use in the U.S. but red tape, health care staff shortages and other problems have prevented many patients and doctors from getting them. Department of Health
TOKYO The Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil that’s different from the ones in Britain and South Africa. The variant was found in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ministry said Sunday. Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and.
Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant PTI
Updated : Jan 11, 2021, 11:37 am IST
Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus
People walk around in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo on Thursday, January. 7, 2021, after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced a state of emergency. Japan declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and three nearby prefectures, starting Friday as coronavirus cases continued to surge in the nation. (AP/Hiro Komae)
Tokyo: The Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil that s different from the ones in Britain and South Africa.
Another COVID-19 variant? Japan finds new virus strain in people arriving from Brazil
The variant was found in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the country s Health Ministry said on Sunday.
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A woman looks at strawberries at a supermarket on the first day of a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. (Photo | AP) By PTI
TOKYO: The Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil that s different from the ones in Britain and South Africa.
The variant was found in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ministry said Sunday.