Variants of Variants Seen In COVID-Ravaged Brazil

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March 24, 2021 — The unchecked spread of the more contagious coronavirus variants in Brazil appears to have created even more dangerous versions of the virus that causes COVID-19. A team of researchers from Fiocruz, a large public health research lab run by Brazil’s Ministry of Health, documented the changes. Their findings were recently … Read more

CDC, WHO Create Threat Levels for COVID Variants

Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, associate director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri CDC, SARS-CoV2 Variants, updated March 16, 2021 WHO, Weekly Epidemiological Report, February 25, 2021 WHO, Weekly Epidemiological Report, March 16, 2021 Public Health England, Variants of Concern or Under Investigation, Updated March 15, 2021 … Read more

Covid-19 crisis in Brazil and it is becoming a threat to humanity

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Covid-19 cases in Brazil are increasing sharply (Reuters image) Brazil has been witnessing 70,000 cases a day and 2, 000 deaths daily with the second wave of coronavirus having hit the country. The cases reached their highest level so far on March 10 when 80, 000 fresh cases were recorded and 2,286 cases occurred. According … Read more

UK bans arrivals from South America over Brazil virus variant

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LONDON: Britain will ban arrivals from Brazil, other South American states and Portugal due to concerns over a new coronavirus variant, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Thursday. “I’ve taken the urgent decision to ban arrivals from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela … Read more

How worrying are the UK, South Africa, and Brazil Covid variants?

By Michelle RobertsHealth editor, BBC News online image copyrightGetty Images New variants of coronavirus are emerging that are more infectious than the original one that started the pandemic. Scientists are urgently studying these mutated versions to understand what threat they pose. What are these new variants? Experts’ concerns currently focus on a small number of … Read more