The EU health pass, enabling to travel between EU countries requiring it, could be needed longer, one extra year than expected, until June 30, 2023, following the vote at the EU Parliament.
Unfortunately, Covid-19 is not something from the past yet. Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, always growing in France, have caused the contamination toll to rise suddenly, sparking fears to encounter another wave this summer.
Over two years after the virus was first reported, the Covid-19 epidemic is still not over. And new variants keep emerging, such as XD, a contagious and virulent mix of Omicron and Delta.
PCR, saliva or anal tests, which one of them is more effective to detect stealth variants like Omicron or BA.2? Very common in China, anal swab has not conquered the rest of the world.
A new Omicron sub-lineage variant, called BA.2, has broken out in the world over the past few days. About twenty cases have been reported in France already.
As some people have been willing to be optimistic, this January 18, 2022, the WHO has warned the world. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press brief the pandemic was “nowhere near over”, adding “new variants are likely to emerge”.
As some specialists are hoping to exit the crisis thanks to Omicron, WHO tries to stay more cautious. “The more Omicron spreads, the more it transmits and the more it replicates, the more likely it is to throw out a new variant," WHO senior emergencies officer Catherine Smallwood said.
As the Omicron variant dominates in several countries across the world, are PCR and antigen tests likely to detect this new variant? According to the U.S. health authorities, antigen tests are less sensitive to Omicron.
The outbreak of the Omicron variant has the planet worried, especially as no one knows yet what it actually means for the evolution of the pandemic. What are its symptoms? Is it more contagious?
The new Omicron variant found in South Africa has started to spread already, especially in Europe where a first case has been reported in Belgium this Friday. Keep reading to find out more.
As Europe is faced with a new wave caused by the Delta variant, a new variant has been found in South Africa. According to several South-African scientists, this strain shows an “extremely high” number of mutations and is a source of “concern”.
The outbreak of new variants makes us fear the worst every time. Last night, the World Health Organization warned about a new strain, called “Mu”, and found this past January in Colombia. According to the health organization, this Covid-19 variant presents mutations likely to indicate “potential properties of immune escape”.
As covid-19 contaminations continue to fall in France, Prof. Alain Fischer estimated on August 30 on BFMTV that we were "not very far from a return to a life fairly close to normal", assuring us that "there will be no more containment, barring a new variant".
Nicknamed “Breton variant”, a new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mutation has been found in Brittany, as reported this March 15, 2021 by Health General Management. Since then, authorities have decided to list this new variant in the “to be surveilled” category.
And what if a new Covid variant was making trouble in vaccination campaigns around the world…? In a report from the University of Edinburgh – released this Wednesday February 17 – scientists have said this new strain of the virus – similar to the already known UK variant – has been found in December in many countries, France included.
