There has been a ‘sharp increase’ in people with covid reporting gastrointestinal symptoms Differentiating between covid and the flu can be difficult – but two eating-related symptoms could illustrate you’ve actually had Omicron. With restrictions lifting across the world, the abolition of isolation rules and summer holidays appearing to be on this year, the world […]
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PCR tests don’t seem so bad anymore China has reportedly returned to anal swabbing to detect coronavirus ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics next month. Authorities have allegedly asked more than two dozen people to submit anal swabs after a 26-year-old woman in their building tested positive for covid, reports the Beijing News. Anal swabs […]
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Omicron’s got a little sister – and she’s sneakier There’s a new covid-19 variant in town which has been nicknamed “stealth Omicron”. Here’s everything we know about it so far… The UK Health Security Agency has dubbed BA.2 a “variant under investigation” after early research indicates it could be more transmissible than regular Omicron and […]
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Have you been nipping to the bog more frequently than usual? As coronavirus cases are still on the increase across the UK and Europe, information surrounding signs of infection are just as important as ever. Most poignantly, given the variant’s prevalence among the total number of cases across the globe, scientists, health experts and recent […]
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The ICU unit opened four months early to aid in fighting covid A doctor working in an intensive care unit has disclosed that every single covid patient in the unit is unvaccinated. Dr David Hepburn stated that while vaccines do not offer 100 per cent protection, no vaccinated people were in the ICU at Grange […]
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Quebec has the highest covid-related death rate in Canada The city of Quebec is set to impose a health tax on unvaccinated Canadians as the country looks to battle an ongoing surge of Omicron coronavirus cases. The predominantly French-speaking province recorded 12,028 deaths on Tuesday and although only around 12.8 per cent of its population […]
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