Bangkokians in a tizzy over the Indian Covid variant
RESIDENTS of Bangkok are raising questions about how the Indian variant of the coronavirus, which spreads very quickly, cropped up at a workers’ camp in Lak Si district while also keeping an eye on how extensively it will spread here, Matichon newspaper said this morning. Meanwhile the Public Health Ministry said early this morning (May […]
Read More15 workers infected with Indian Covid variant, emergency extended
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA’s) spokesman Dr. Taweesilp Visanuyothin said this afternoon (May 21) that many workers at a camp in Laksi district of Bangkok have contracted coronavirus with 15 of them infected with the Indian strain, Thai Rath newspaper said. He also stated that CCSA’s Management Committee agreed to extend the […]
Read MoreCovid vaccine ‘won’t prevent infection but is a weapon to fight it’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters QUESTIONS have arisen about the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in protecting people against the “double mutant” coronavirus variant that emerged in India. This issue came to the limelight after Dr Rajendra Kapila, an infectious disease expert at Rutgers University in US, died upon getting infected with the Indian strain during […]
Read MoreSouth African Covid variant reaches Thailand
THE Public Health Ministry today (Feb. 14) revealed that the South African Covid-19 strain had reached Thailand with this found in a Thai man who had spent two months in Tanzania on a gem buying trip and returning Jan. 29 after transiting in Ethiopia, TV Channel 7 said. Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Disease […]
Read MoreUK coronavirus variant on course ‘to sweep the world’
By CNBC (London) — A variant of the coronavirus that first emerged in the UK, and has since been identified in over 80 countries, could become the dominant form of the virus worldwide, according to the head of the UK’s genetic surveillance programme. “The new variant has swept the country and it’s going to sweep […]
Read MoreGermany discovers new Covid variant among 35 hospital patients
By CNBC GERMANY is the latest country to discover a new mutation of the coronavirus, with a new variant identified among a group of hospital patients in Bavaria. Local news outlets first reported on Monday (Jan. 18) that an unknown variant of the coronavirus had been discovered among 35 patients at a hospital in the […]
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