(Reuters) – The following is a roundup of a number of the newest scientific research on the novel coronavirus and efforts to discover remedies and vaccines for COVID-19, the sickness attributable to the virus. FILE PHOTO: A medical employee vaccinates a person towards the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) as Israel kicks off a coronavirus vaccination drive, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical …

LONDON (AP) — On March 4, 2020, when there have been simply 84 confirmed instances of COVID-19 within the U.Okay., professor Sharon Peacock acknowledged that the nation wanted to develop its capability to analyze the genetic make-up of the virus. The Cambridge University microbiologist understood that genomic sequencing could be essential in monitoring the illness, controlling outbreaks and growing vaccines. …

FILE PHOTO: An NHS signal is displayed on the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) vaccination centre at Cliffs Pavilion in Southend-on-Sea, Britain, February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Paul Childs (Reuters) – NHS England has invited people aged 56 to 59 to book COVID-19 vaccinations in the coming week, with letters to 850,000 people in that age bracket touchdown on doorsteps from Saturday and one …

LONDON (Reuters) – More than 20 million folks throughout the United Kingdom have now acquired their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, information confirmed on Sunday because the nation made extra progress with Europe’s quickest vaccination programme. Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated the milestone represented “an enormous nationwide achievement and he paid testomony to the nation’s health, staff, volunteers and armed forces. …

VO, Italy (AP) — Italy delivered the primary surprising affirmation of domestically transmitted coronavirus infections outdoors of Asia a 12 months in the past Sunday, with back-to-back revelations of instances greater than 150 kilometers (almost 100 miles) aside within the nation’s north. First, a 38-year-old man in Codogno, an industrial town within the Lombardy area, examined constructive for COVID-19, sending …

By Paul Sandle, Kate Kelland FILE PHOTO: Deputy cost nurse Katie McIntosh administers the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs, to Vivien McKay Clinical Nurse Manager at the Western General Hospital, on the first day of the largest immunisation programme in the British historical past, in Edinburgh, Scotland Britain December 8, 2020. Andrew Milligan/Pool by way of REUTERS/File Photo …

CONAKRY (Reuters) – The World Health Organization has asked six African countries to be alert for potential Ebola infections, as Guinea on Tuesday reported new instances and Democratic Republic of Congo mentioned its new infections have been a resurgence of a earlier outbreak. A emblem of the World Health Organization (WHO), is seen earlier than a information convention in Geneva, …

Latest figures additionally counsel women are more and more in danger, in comparison with the unique, first-wave coronavirus pressure. The extremely infectious variant of the novel coronavirus that’s predominant within the United Kingdom may be as much as 70 percent more lethal than earlier strains, based on a report by the federal government’s scientific advisers. The findings from the New …

NEW DELHI (AP) — What if COVID-19 never goes away? Experts say it’s probably that some model of the illness will linger for years. But what it should appear like sooner or later is much less clear. Will the coronavirus, which has already killed greater than 2 million folks worldwide, finally be eradicated by a world vaccination marketing campaign, like …

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare employee prepares a dose of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination centre contained in the Blackburn Cathedral, in Blackburn, Britain, January 19, 2021. REUTERS/Molly Darlington/File Photo (Reuters) – The University of Oxford has launched a research to assess the protection and immune response of the COVID-19 vaccine it has developed with AstraZeneca Plc in …