NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the COVID-19 epidemic in North Korea, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reports according to the notification of the National Emergency Response Command,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the early months of 2020, officials in North Korea have acknowledged the presence of, or an outbreak of the virus. According...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Philippines Department of Health (DOH), through its Center for Health Development (CHD) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), recently detected Omicron-BA.2.12. It is...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Results of a new multicenter study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vaccination with a primary series of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine reduced...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The New York State Department of Health today announced the emergence of two Omicron subvariants in New York State, BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1. Both variants are sub-lineages of BA.2,...

New research from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine suggests that the children younger than age 5 who are infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant have less risk of severe...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Vietnam health officials reported 162,435 COVID-19 cases in 62 provinces and cities on March 8, a new single day record. The Ministry of Health said that the average number of new...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 If you haven’t heard of Eric Feigl-Ding, PhD, you must spend no time on Twitter. Dr. Ding is listened to by hundreds of thousands of followers and although he has doctorates...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the Omicron variant BA.2 situation in Denmark, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) reports the prevalence of the omicron variant BA.2 continues to increase...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A week after Denmark said they are no longer categorizing COVID-19 as a “socially critical disease”, The Swedish Public Health Agency said it had reassessed...