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Topic: coronavirus-variant

Workers from Hong Kong's pubs, karaoke bars start hunger strike, demand reopening

Workers from Hong Kong's pubs, karaoke bars start hunger strike, demand reopening

South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 05 09:11 AM

Workers from Hong Kong's pubs, karaoke bars and mahjong parlors have started a four-day hunger strike outside the city's legislature to pressure the government into allowing them to reopen as new coronavirus infections have remained low. Read more »

HK must stay alert to possible threat posed by COVID-19 variant first found in PH - experts

HK must stay alert to possible threat posed by COVID-19 variant first found in PH - experts

Elizabeth Cheung, Phila Siu and Lilian Cheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 04 09:41 AM

Concern mounts over threat from mutation that has appeared in the Philippines. Saturday’s COVID-19 caseload is Hong Kong’s lowest in nearly a week. Read more »

In mutant variants, has the coronavirus shown its best tricks?

In mutant variants, has the coronavirus shown its best tricks?

Kate Kelland and Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters
Posted at Apr 01 08:11 AM

LONDON/CHICAGO - The rapid rise in different parts of the world of deadly, more infectious coronavirus variants that share new mutations is leading scientists to ask a critical question - has the SARS-CoV-2 virus shown its best cards? Read more »

Hong Kong's tough COVID-19 rules see babies isolated, families cramped in tiny spaces

Hong Kong's tough COVID-19 rules see babies isolated, families cramped in tiny spaces

Reuters
Posted at Mar 16 11:04 AM

HONG KONG - Families in Asia's financial hub of Hong Kong are suffering isolation and trauma after strict coronavirus rules have led to babies being separated from parents and those with newborns herded into tiny quarantine quarters for up to 14 days. Read more »

WHO vouches for efficacy of AstraZeneca vs South African coronavirus variant

WHO vouches for efficacy of AstraZeneca vs South African coronavirus variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 04 10:29 PM

The World Health Organization vouches for the efficacy of AstraZeneca's vaccine amid concerns it offers less protection against the South African variant of the coronavirus. Read more »

Coronavirus variant sa Brazil, kayang maka-infect ng mga tao na nagka-COVID-19 na noon

Coronavirus variant sa Brazil, kayang maka-infect ng mga tao na nagka-COVID-19 na noon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 09:12 PM

Ayon sa mga eksperto, halos 3 beses na mas nakakahawa ang COVID-19 variant na nakita sa Brazil.  Read more »

Chinese teams looking for vaccines for COVID-19 variants for ‘a long time’, expert says

Chinese teams looking for vaccines for COVID-19 variants for ‘a long time’, expert says

Mimi Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 28 01:47 PM

Researchers have been ‘tracking and analyzing a global database of COVID-19 patients’, military scientist Chen Wei says. Work ‘began a long time ago for a new and stronger vaccine targeting mutations’, she says. Read more »

PH detects 18 more UK COVID-19 variant cases

PH detects 18 more UK COVID-19 variant cases

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 11:12 PM

Medical researchers in the Philippines detect 18 more cases of the more transmissible UK COVID-19 variant. Read more »

2 COVID-19 'mutations' na nakita sa Cebu binabantayan ng DOH

2 COVID-19 'mutations' na nakita sa Cebu binabantayan ng DOH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 08:39 PM

Binabantayan ng DOH sa Central Visayas ang dalawang sinasabing mutations na nakita sa mga COVID-19 sample mula Cebu. Read more »

UK COVID-19 variant case in PH linked to MRT cluster

UK COVID-19 variant case in PH linked to MRT cluster

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 11:48 PM

A Philippine case of the UK coronavirus variant is linked to a cluster of COVID-19 infections in the country's Metro Rail Transit.   Read more »

As COVID-19 crisis keeps visitors away, Hong Kong travel agents run out of options

As COVID-19 crisis keeps visitors away, Hong Kong travel agents run out of options

South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 15 11:11 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic forced 88 Hong Kong travel agents to close last year, while others downsized or began sharing premises to cut costs and carry on. Read more »

Quezon City isolates community where UK COVID-19 variant case was detected

Quezon City isolates community where UK COVID-19 variant case was detected

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 12 10:53 PM

Authorities isolate a Quezon City community that was recently visited by a man infected with the UK coronavirus variant. Read more »

Amazon coronavirus variant three times more contagious, says Brazil minister

Amazon coronavirus variant three times more contagious, says Brazil minister

Maria Carolina Marcello, Reuters
Posted at Feb 12 08:03 AM

BRASILIA - A coronavirus variant identified in the Brazilian Amazon may be three times more contagious but early analysis suggests vaccines are still effective against it, the country's health minister said on Thursday, without providing evidence for the claims. Read more »

Quezon City to conduct contact tracing after man tests positive for UK COVID-19 variant

Quezon City to conduct contact tracing after man tests positive for UK COVID-19 variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 11 11:24 PM

Philippine health authorities in Quezon City race to conduct contact tracing after a visitor tested positive for the UK coronavirus variant. Read more »

World faces around 4,000 coronavirus variants, prompting search for improved vaccines: UK ofc'l

World faces around 4,000 coronavirus variants, prompting search for improved vaccines: UK ofc'l

Guy Faulconbridge and Alistair Smout, Reuters
Updated as of Feb 05 06:23 AM

There are around 4,000 coronavirus variants around the world prompting vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc, to try to improve their shots, a British minister said.   Read more »

UK virus variant has developed concerning new mutation in small number of cases

UK virus variant has developed concerning new mutation in small number of cases

Estelle Shirbon and Alistair Smout, Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 01:08 AM

LONDON - The UK variant of the coronavirus has developed a new, concerning mutation in a small number of cases, which scientists said makes it similar to the South African and Brazilian variants and could reduce the efficacy of vaccines. Read more »

Vietnam confirms latest virus outbreak includes more contagious UK variant

Vietnam confirms latest virus outbreak includes more contagious UK variant

Phuong Nguyen, Reuters
Posted at Feb 02 02:46 PM

Vietnam's health minister said Tuesday a newly detected coronavirus outbreak, which has infected 276 people and spread to 10 provinces and cities, is caused by the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus. Read more »

Novavax COVID vaccine highly effective, but not against S.Africa variant

Novavax COVID vaccine highly effective, but not against S.Africa variant

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 29 09:26 AM

WASHINGTON - US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday its two-shot COVID-19 vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 89.3 percent in a major Phase 3 clinical trial in Britain, and remained highly effective against a variant first identified there. Read more »

UK records second highest daily COVID toll on Wednesday

UK records second highest daily COVID toll on Wednesday

Reuters
Posted at Jan 28 05:04 AM

LONDON - The United Kingdom on Wednesday recorded its second highest daily death toll from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic as the government battled to speed up vaccination delivery. Read more »

PH expands ban to foreign travelers from Czech Republic over new COVID-19 variant

PH expands ban to foreign travelers from Czech Republic over new COVID-19 variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 26 10:14 PM

MANILA - Foreign travelers from the Czech Republic are banned from entering the Philippines from Jan. 28 until Jan. 31, Malacañang said Friday, after the UK COVID-19 variant was detected in the European country. Read more »

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