Category: new variants

More Deadly COVID-19 Strains Likely as China Lifts Travel Restrictions Amid Outbreak, Microbiologist Warns

China will once again allow its citizens to travel abroad, starting on Jan. 8, amid its latest and potentially biggest COVID-19 outbreak. But that could result in significant health challenges and more pathogenic COVID-19 strains, Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin, a microbiologist and assistant professor in the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College, stated in an…


China’s COVID Outbreak Linked to Worldwide Shortage of Over-the-Counter Drugs

News Analysis Amid China’s major COVID-19 outbreak, panic buying of pain relievers and fever medicines has led to shortages in the country and abroad. Experts say the current rate of infections could breed new virus variants and threaten the international community. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sudden move to abandon its zero-COVID policy without a plan forward…


Covid Vaccines Might Not Work as Well on New Sars-Cov-2 Variants

Three new, fast-spreading variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 can evade antibodies that work against the original form that sparked the pandemic, new research shows. With few exceptions, whether the antibodies were produced in response to vaccination or natural infection, or were purified antibodies intended for use as drugs, researchers found they needed more…


Four Countries Added to England’s COVID-19 Travel Ban List

England has expanded its COVID-19 travel ban, adding four countries to its “red list” to prevent new variants of the CCP virus from entering the country. From 0300 GMT on Apr. 9, international visitors who have departed from or transited through the Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bangladesh in the previous 10 days will be refused…


Virus Surges Anew in Central Europe in Face of New Variants

PRAGUE—Authorities in central Europe warned on Friday that they are seeing a surge in coronavirus cases across their region amid the discovery of new variants. The Polish health minister, Adam Niedzielski, said the first case of a variant first found in South Africa had been discovered in Poland, and that some 10 percent of all…