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New Covid-19 variant Deltacron has been detected in Australia

Published on: April 9, 2022
11:47

By: Pavel López Lazo

Canberra, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Australian health authorities on Saturday announced the detection of a new variant of Covid-19, Deltacron, which is a hybrid of two previous strains.

New SARS-CoV-2 variant detected in Israel

Published on: March 16, 2022
08:02

By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte

Tel Aviv, Mar 16 (Prensa Latina) Israeli health authorities on Wednesday announced the discovery in two patients of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, never before detected in the world.

Cuba accumulates 284 contagions with Omicron variant

Published on: February 28, 2022
12:30

By: Ana Luisa Brown

Havana, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) Cuba reported on Monday that five people have been detected in the last few days with the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, and now the country accumulates 284 cases.

Omicron sub-variant BA.2 more infectious than original version

Published on: February 1, 2022
18:07

By: Pavel López Lazo

Copenhagen, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) Omicron sub-variant BA.2 would be more infectious than the original one (BA.1), according to a study released Tuesday by the University of Copenhagen and the Statens Serum Institut.

Different Omicron genetic variant detected in Australia

Published on: December 8, 2021
13:29

By: Ana Luisa Brown

Canberra, Dec 8 (Prensa Latina) A different genetic variation of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, was detected in the state of Queensland, Australia, television channel 9News reported on Wednesday.

Cuba rules out Omicron strain in traveler from South Africa

Published on: December 4, 2021
13:19

By: Juan M. Garcia

Havana, Dec 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK) ruled out that a patient who arrived in the Villa Clara municipality of Placetas from South Africa carried the Omicron variant of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, Granma newspaper reported on Saturday.

Over half Omicron cases in England are in the double jabbed

Published on: December 3, 2021
19:16

By: Pavel López Lazo

London, Dec 3 (Prensa Latina) More than half of those infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant in England were double jabbed, health officials have said, as the number of cases detected in the UK continues to rise sharply.

WHO names new Covid-19 strain Omicron as variant of concern

Published on: November 26, 2021
18:54

By: Pavel López Lazo

Geneva, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) An advisory panel of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday named new B.1.1.529 strain Omicron, detected for the first time in South Africa, which experts described it as a mutated variant of concern.

WHO names new Covid-19 strain Omicron as variant of concern

Published on: November 26, 2021
18:54

By: Pavel López Lazo

New heavily mutated variant B.1.1.529 in South Africa raises concern

Published on: November 25, 2021
20:03

By: Pavel López Lazo

Pretoria, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) South Africa´s National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Thursday confirmed the existence of a new mutated coronavirus variant (B.1.1.529).

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New Covid-19 variant Deltacron has been detected in Australia

New SARS-CoV-2 variant detected in Israel

Cuba accumulates 284 contagions with Omicron variant

Omicron sub-variant BA.2 more infectious than original version

Different Omicron genetic variant detected in Australia

Cuba rules out Omicron strain in traveler from South Africa

Over half Omicron cases in England are in the double jabbed

WHO names new Covid-19 strain Omicron as variant of concern

WHO names new Covid-19 strain Omicron as variant of concern

New heavily mutated variant B.1.1.529 in South Africa raises concern

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