Tag Archives: Omicron

Saturday March 11 marks three years since the WHO first called the outbreak a pandemic, and the UN says it’s not yet ready to say the emergency has ended. Source link

Researchers at University of Hong Kong also find three vaccine doses can reduce Covid-19 related deaths for people with multiple chronic illnesses by 90 per cent. Source link

Top official said changes, from Wednesday, will help promote ‘smooth international travel’. Source link

Experts are predicting a succession of smaller, less severe waves of Covid-19 in China. Source link

Scientists from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine cast doubt on effectiveness of booster shots after comparing serum samples from 135 patients infected with the BA2 strain of the Omicron variant. Source link

Chinese health officials also record sharp decrease in Covid-19 patients at hospitals and fever clinics since illness wave crested in January. Source link

The national Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says deaths in hospitals peaked on January 4 and stood at less than a thousand on Monday. Source link

The coronavirus should be a warning that the world must be better prepared to deal with future outbreaks of infectious disease. Source link

Lingering symptoms of Covid currently affect 10 per cent of patients, researchers say. Source link

He said the volume of patients in the emergency unit of his hospital has doubled to 1,600 people per day, 80 per cent of them Covid-related, with vulnerable groups such as the elderly or immunocompromised making up around half of these cases. The hospital expanded its emergency capacity from four …