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It is possible that 4.7 million Jakarta residents have had the virus, with only 8.1 per cent of cases having been recorded, a recent seroprevalence survey suggests. AFP
‘Nearly half’ of Jakartans may’ve had Covid
Mon, 19 July 2021
Nearly half of all Jakartans may have had Covid-19, some 15 times the reported figure, according to a recent seroprevalence survey that suggests that many of the cases were asymptomatic.
THE University of Indonesia’s School of Public Health, the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and the Jakarta administration conducted antibody tests on 4,919 people above the age of 1 from around 100 subdistricts of the capital’s five municipalities and the Thousand Islands regency from March 15 to 31.
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China reports its first death of a human from rare Monkey B virus Rebecca Tan © Shutterstock The Monkey B virus, or herpes B virus, is prevalent among macaque monkeys, but extremely rare and often deadly when it spreads to humans. A man in China has died after contracting a rare infectious disease from primates, known as the Monkey B virus, Chinese health officials revealed in a report Saturday. The victim, a 53-year-old veterinarian based in Beijing, was the first documented human case of the virus in China. According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the man worked in a research institute that specialized in nonhuman primate breeding and dissected two dead monkeys in March. He experienced nausea, vomiting and fever a month later, and died May 27. His blood and saliva samples were sent to the center in April, where researchers found evidence of the Monkey B virus. Two of his close contacts, a male doctor and a female nurse, t
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