Arrests and detentions for COVID-related rule-breaking in China surged in March, according to the results of a search by Reuters on the Weibo social media platform for police statements, posts by state agencies and state media reports from around China.
Health Canada is alerting health care providers that sotrovimab, a COVID-19 monoclonal antibody therapy treatment, may no longer be effective against the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
New Canadian research suggests that the transmission of COVID-19 within a household could be more than 50 per cent and that children play a ‘important’ role in its spread through the home.
A trio of studies are suggesting that vaccines already in use to prevent meningitis could also provide some level of protection against untreatable gonorrhea, something that could be key considering rising rates of the disease in Canada.