Just As COVID Vaccine Found To Be 99% Effective In Preventing Death, Japan Discovers New, More Contagious Strain zerohedge.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zerohedge.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Japan’s government says it has confirmed a new, more contagious COVID-19 strain days after the country began administering the Pfizer vaccine, the first approved for use in the country.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 24.2 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 15.2 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 30.0 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 110,070
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 59,882
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 2,706
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 17.8 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened, hospitalizations little changed, and deaths improved
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Three cases of the variant from Brazil have been identified in Ireland. By Lauren Boland Saturday 20 Feb 2021, 1:38 PM Feb 20th 2021, 12:41 PM 44,444 Views 93 Comments
Updated Feb 20th 2021, 1:38 PM
THE NEW VARIANT of Covid-19 first seen in Brazil has been identified in Ireland, with three cases confirmed to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
The three cases are directly associated with recent travel from Brazil, the Department of Health said last night.
Ireland has joined a growing list of European countries that have reported a small number of cases of the variant, which includes France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
The variant has been named the P.1. lineage, and it was first identified by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan.