After UK, South Africa New Brazilian COVID Strain In Japan! Jan 11, 2021, 16:58 IST
TOKYO: In the latest news about the new strains of COVID-19, the Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil which is different from the ones in Britain and South Africa.
The variant was found during airport tests conducted on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ministry said on Sunday.
The man who tested positive had no symptoms upon arrival but was hospitalised after his breathing became difficult. The woman suffered headaches, one teen, a male, had a fever, while the other female teen had no symptoms, according to the ministry.
BEIJING Chinese health authorities say scores more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Hebei province bordering on the capital Beijing. The outbreak focused on the Hebei cities of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai is one of China’s most serious in recent months and comes amid measures to curb the further spread during next month’s Lunar […]
Germany’s BioNTech, which developed the first COVID-19 vaccination on the market with American partner Pfizer, says it expects to produce 2 billion doses in 2021 with ramped-up manufacturing. Company CEO and co-founder Ugur Sahin says with three manufacturing sites in the United States and three in Europe operating or coming online soon, it expects to approximately double the number of doses committed for this fiscal year. The company said in a presentation Monday to the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that it is also looking to expand the people able to receive its vaccine to