Just as California seemed to be on the verge of truly turning the Covid-19 corner, the Stanford Clinical Virology Lab confirmed a case of an emerging variant that originated in India, Deadline has learned.
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direct to your inboxA new coronavirus variant has been confirmed in England after two cases were found.The strain was first reported in the Philippines.Public Health England said the variant contains a number of notable mutations, including the E484K spike protein found in the Manaus variant.Concerns have been raised that vaccines may not be as effective against this protein.The new strain has been designated as a variant under investigation (VUI) rather than a variant of concern, such as the
.Just as California seemed to be on the verge of truly turning the Covid-19 corner, the Stanford Clinical Virology Lab confirmed a case of an emerging variant that originated in India, Deadline has learned.
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Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionAshgill and Netherburn (13), Blantyre South and Wheatlands (11), Calderwood East (10), Halfway, Hallside and Drumsagard (10) and Westburn and Newton (13) were the only five neighbourhoods to record at least 10 cases last week.Ashgill and Netherburn also saw the highest rate of new cases last week at 4.3 per 1000 residents.Across South Lanarkshire, 37 of the 82 neighbourhoods
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Ben Lawers nature reserve in Perthshire is abuzz with excitement after it was found to be home to several species of bee not found there before.
coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Figures announced by the Scottish Government this afternoon reveal 532 new cases of the virus have been identified overnight, bringing the total cases to 213, 529.
direct to your inboxThere have been no new coronavirus deaths reported at Greater Manchester hospitals n the past 24 hours.The latest data released by the NHS on Sunday shows a further 49 deaths reported nationally where the deceased had tested positive for Covid-19.But only one of these deaths was at a hospital trust in the north west, at Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust in Lancashire.There were no new deaths relating to hospital trusts in Greater Manchester.It means the death toll for our region
There were seven people in hospital with less than five in intensive care.There have been cases across the region in the past fortnight, with figures from Public Health Scotland showing more than half of new cases in the past seven days have been in the Sanquhar area.
coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The latest figures were announced by Nicola Sturgeon during this morning's coronavirus committee meeting in Parliament.
direct to your inboxMore than 140 cases of Covid-19 have been found as part of localised mass testing in Manchester - though none involve a ‘variant of concern’ found in parts of the city so far.Testing programmes in the north and south of the city have been successful in the ongoing efforts to prevent people unknowingly spreading the virus.But public health officials are ‘frustrated’ with the speed at which positive tests are being analysed by laboratories to see if they matched the E484k
Wigan in the seven days up to February 27. The figure is up from 24 the previous week and marks a 112pc increase.According to figures from Public Health England, the infection rate for Abram & Bickershaw has soared to 604.6 cases per 100,000 people, the highest rate anywhere in the region.The M.E.N.
direct to your inboxThe missing person who tested positive for a coronavirus 'variant of concern', first identified in Manaus, Brazil, has reportedly been found.Health officials were hunting for the unknown individual after six cases of the P1 variant were detected in England and Scotland towards the end of last week.One of the six cases could not be tracked because a form filled in on their arrival in the country had missing details.The missing individual has now been found after a five-day
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Scientists have identified 16 cases of a new coronavirus variant in the UK, Public Health England (PHE) has announced.Cases of the variant, referred to as VUI-202102/04, were first identified on February 15 through genomic horizon scanning.PHE said on Thursday that all individuals who tested positive and their contacts have been traced and advised to isolate.The variant, which is understood to have