Covid 19 coronavirus: World s most vaccinated nation is spooked by Covid spike
12 May, 2021 09:07 PM
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Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, in February. The island nation, with a population of just over 100,000, is now battling a surge of the coronavirus and has had to reimpose a lockdown. Photo / AP
Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, in February. The island nation, with a population of just over 100,000, is now battling a surge of the coronavirus and has had to reimpose a lockdown. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Sui-Lee Wee
Seychelles has seen a surge in coronavirus cases even though much of its population was inoculated with China s Sinopharm vaccine.
âThis is something we should really be seriously investigating because hotel quarantine presents our greatest vulnerability,â Professor Griffin said.
âIt is where all our coronavirus cases are coming from. We know there is a lag between being vaccinated and getting maximum protection, but there is also now a growing risk of acquiring the infection in the hotel quarantine system.â
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The push for mandatory vaccination of returned travellers comes as genomic sequencing confirmed a Victorian man who tested positive for COVID-19 had contracted the virus in his final days of hotel quarantine in Adelaide.
The idea has the backing of several leading epidemiologists who say more outbreaks at quarantine hotels are inevitable as the virus runs rampant in parts of the world.
Chhota Rajan back in Tihar after recovering from covid
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May 11, 2021
New Delhi, May 11: Gangster Chhota Rajan, who was admitted at AIIMS here for treatment after he had tested positive for Covid-19, was taken back to Tihar jail on Tuesday following his recovery from illness, officials said.
He was found Covid-19 positive in the Tihar Jail on April 22 and was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on April 24.
According to a senior police officer, Rajan was brought back to Tihar on Tuesday as he had recovered.
On Friday, the jail administration had dismissed reports claiming that Rajan had died.
New model could help test vaccines against the deadly Strep A bacteria
Researchers have successfully developed a new Strep A human challenge model, paving the way to test vaccines against the common deadly bacteria that causes sore throats, scarlet fever and skin sores.
The collaborative research effort, led by the Murdoch Children s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in
The Lancet Microbe, found the model, which deliberately infected healthy adult volunteers with the bacteria in a controlled environment, was safe and would now be used to trial Strep A candidate vaccines.
Strep A infections affect about 750 million people and kill more than 500,000 globally every year - more than influenza, typhoid or whooping cough. Strep A can also cause severe life-threatening infections like toxic shock syndrome and flesh eating disease and post-infectious illnesses such as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and kidney disease.