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The new B.1.1.529 strain may soon be classified a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A new challenge that countries may possibly face in the future is the emergence of a new SARS-CoV-3 virus arising from humans transmitting the coronavirus back to bats.
In theory, vaccines could protect against lots of coronaviruses at once — but a working shot will require both lots of money and regulatory clearance.
Scientists in Singapore have made an important discovery about the shape and structure of the Sars-CoV-2 virus' genetic material - which can help in producing more effective drugs to treat Covid-19.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) found that 2003 SARS survivors who have been vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine produced highly potent functional antibodies that are capable of neutralizing not only all known SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns (VOCs) but also other animal coronaviruses that have the potential to cause human infection.