COVID-19

Last Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that omicron could mean the end of the pandemic. However, it also warns that it is very likely not to be the last variant and that care must be taken. In recent days, a new variant of omicron called BA.2 has been detected in several countries. The name 'stealth' comes because it is able to avoid and sneak away from traditional mutation […]

Although the high rates of contagion of COVID-19 caused by omicron continue to cause concern, the WHO is sending a message that this variant, which is expected to infect 60% of Europeans by March, could end the coronavirus pandemic. In the words of the Professor of Microbiology at the University of Navarra: "probably in this sixth wave the number of infected will exceed ten million COVID-19 infections, which indicates that […]

The key to why some people don’t get Covid-19 in any of its variants could be in the ease of getting the common cold. This is assured by a recent study by Imperial College London recently published in the journal 'Nature Communications'. According to this trial, the body’s immune response to the common cold-typical of these winter dates-is able to stop the attempt to 'enter' the body of SARS-CoV-2, commonly […]

With the lowering of the price of antigen tests in Spain, our country is equal to other European countries that had already put limits on the cost of tests. In some, they are even free. Something that has recently come to the attention is that as close as in Portugal they could be bought for just over two euros. In a country with more per capita income, Germany, they are […]

Guardia Civil agents intervened in Madrid a total of 6,420 antigen tests for the detection of Covid-19. These were of four different brands that did not comply with the established health regulations. The intervention occurred after regular inspections in two warehouses, hidden from the commercial areas of the establishment. There were several boxes with autotests, according to the statement. During the counting of the tests in one of the warehouses, […]

The first treatment for people who get Covid-19 will soon be available. These are pills developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer: Paxlovid. Paxlovid is the trade name for Pfizer’s antiviral. This will reduce by 89% the hospitalizations and the risk of death caused by the disease. The treatment consists of three pills daily for five days from the first day of symptoms or a positive test. However, it should always […]

The sixth wave does not seem to stop. The Marina Alta has accumulated in just three days another 3,076 infections of covid. They are almost twice as high as in Tuesday’s penultimate update, when 1,767 were counted. Fortunately, no deaths have occurred since then, but the accumulated incidence of the virus in the region has hit another astonishing growth spurt: it has grown by more than a thousand points in […]

This sixth wave, so fierce in contagions, continues to have the great advantage that the vast majority of cases are mild or even asymptomatic that are not requiring hospitalization. But even so, there are so many positives -3,076 in the last three days, that it is inevitable that hospital pressure will increase. And it has, even slightly. Thus, according to the weekly meeting held this Friday between Public Health and […]

A few weeks ago, the government approved the reduction from 10 to 7 days of quarantine if you're positive for coronavirus. This measure was approved to combat the advance of omicron and the barrage of coronavirus cases. Despite these seven days of quarantine, there are still people who continue to test positive after the seventh day. The reduction of quarantine in positive cases was also pushed to cope with the […]