coronavirus

Epsilon variant of Covid: only two cases, in Italy, already isolated

EMA has started evaluating an application to extend the use of Kineret (anakinra) to include treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adult patients with pneumonia who are at risk of developing severe respiratory failure…

Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly and countries face shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds

Bangladesh still under the grip of Covid-19: the number of deaths is about 200 a day, hospitals are saturated and citizens are struggling to find drugs to treat their loved ones

"We know that the Delta variant is going to grow and this leads to two recommendations: identify people early, track their contacts and then plan for quarantines. The other major recommendation, I repeat, is to achieve vaccination coverage,…

Vaccine deliveries in Africa: for WHO executives, the responsibility must be attributed to delays in the delivery of the serum produced by the Anglo-Swedish multinational AstraZeneca

Guillain-Barré syndrome and Covid: over the past few days it has been reported that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine may have triggered the rare Guillain-Barré syndrome, a degeneration of the myelin sheaths lining nerve fibres,…

Aerosol against covid and its variants: long-chain polyphosphates can be nebulised in patients suffering from the disease to counteract its effects. Validation of the therapy for human use is now awaited

Five months after the start of vaccination in Brazil, hospitalization rates and the overall average of deaths from Covid-19 have dropped considerably across the country. This Monday (5th), 754 deaths were recorded, the 9th day followed by a…

This was stated by Simg - Italian Society of General Medicine and Primary Care, in collaboration with Simit - Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases