strain: Latest News

Elon Musk has claimed that the names of new Covid variants are giving him inspiration for the names of future children.The world’s richest man was responding to a story discussing how variants of Omicron are appearing differently around the globe, rather than just as a single strain.On Twitter, Shibetoshi Nakamoto – the pseudonym for the person behind the cryptocurrency Dodgecoin – posted a screen grab from the article along with a caption.READ MORE: Elon Musk says World War Three could be on the horizon as Putin prepares his nukes“Did Elon Musk name these new covid variants[?]” they asked.Musk appeared to deny that he was in fact the person behind the naming, but did it admit it was giving him inspiration.He replied: “Definitely giving me kid naming ideas”.Musk has a bit of a track record of unusual baby names.In May 2020, the Tesla founder shared a snap of his and musician Grimes’s newborn son.The accompanying caption revealed that the baby boy’s name was “X Æ A-12 Musk” – something that people still find impossible to pronounce.X Æ A-12 was the couple's first child together.Some people were convinced the name was pronounced as “X Ash Archangel”, in reference to a Lockheed aircraft that is nicknamed Archangel.On Twitter, one fan mused: "How do you pronounce that even? Like you can't just go "Come here X AE A-12", like is it pronounced John or Smith.

The researchers at Boston University have claimed that they have developed a Covid-19 strain that inflicts severe disease and has  80 per cent kill rate. The ones that are dominant across the world such as the sub-variants of Omicron are said to be mild when it comes to their severity. To develop the most lethal Covid strain, the researchers, according to a report, extracted the spike protein from Omicron and genetically engineered it into the strain of Covid-19 which was first detected in China’s Wuhan and tried it on mice.

A mum who named her child after the Covid lockdown insists she "regrets nothing" - and doesn't care that people may not like it.

coronavirus pandemic – and has "no regrets".Jodi Cross had been trying to fall pregnant with her husband Rob for a year.And as life slowed down for the furloughed hairdresser during the pandemic, she had more time to focus on planning for a baby. READ MORE: Mum banned from Halloween bash by 'Karens' after planning Jeffrey Dahmer costume for baby The couple, from Wixams, Bedfordshire, were delighted to find out they were expecting their first daughter during the second lockdown.She they decided to call her baby Lockie – short for lockdown.Jodi, 36, said: "We had been trying for a year to get pregnant and lockdown meant I was furloughed and Rob was working less."I think we just relaxed a bit because we had so much more time than we normally would, and then we found out I was pregnant."When she was born there was the new strain of Covid coming about – Omicron – so we knew she'd be a lockdown baby."So we named her Lockie for lockdown – we really liked the name, and lockdown was a good time in our lives because it was so relaxing."If it wasn't for the pandemic, the pair may not have fallen pregnant so quickly.Rob, 36, moved in with Jodi as the nationwide lockdown began in March 2020.Jodi recalled: "I ended up taking over a little salon during lockdown because I had been on furlough a long time."By this point we had been trying for a year and thought pregnancy wasn't going to happen so started to focus on work instead."A week later I found out I was pregnant."The couple were overjoyed – and got hitched in secret when Jodi was seven months pregnant.Their baby was born last November and they decided to celebrate her conception by calling her Lockie.Jodi said: "We know lots of people didn't enjoy lockdown but for us, it was a

US federal health authorities are gearing up for a widely-expected resurgence of coronavirus during winters. The BQ.1 variant of Covid-19 has already outpaced many rival strains in European nations from England to Germany, where the Covid wave has resurged. Previously, the CDC bundled BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 with their shared parent BA.5.

COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China. The variant, a combination of Omicron and the original virus in Wuhan, killed 80% of the mice infected with it, the university said. When mice were only exposed to Omicron, they experienced mild symptoms.The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Florida and Boston at the school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. They extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it with the strain first detected at the onset of the pandemic that began in Wuhan, China.

(Reuters) – The annual IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington D.C. from Monday (10) to Saturday will include talks on several emerging markets squeezed by rising inflation and borrowing costs against a backdrop of slowing global growth.The economic hit from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has added to pressures that surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic and have led many smaller developing economies to turn to the International Monetary Fund in recent months for help.The IMF has approved programs or financing facilities for 10 countries since the start of the Ukraine war on Feb.

FILE - A Christmas tree stands in a terminal at Leipzig-Halle Airport on Dec. 23, 2021, in Schkeuditz, Saxony, Germany. (Photo by Sebastian Willnow/picture alliance via Getty Images) Inflation has sent U.S.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 08: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the National Baptist Convention on September 08, 2022 in Houston, Texas. The National Baptist Convention was formed in 1886, and gathers church members and leaders from around the WASHINGTON (AP) - Attending funerals on behalf of the United States is normally a straightforward assignment for a vice president, but Kamala Harris will confront controversy at nearly every turn as she visits Asia for the memorial honoring former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.American allies are seeking clarity after mixed messages over whether President Joe Biden would send troops to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, a potential conflict that could swiftly engulf the rest of the region.

The new bivalent (two-strain) Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster triggered stronger neutralizing antibody responses against the highly transmissible Omicron variant at 28 days than the previously authorized booster, with no safety concerns, according to the interim results of a phase 2/3 open-label, nonrandomized study published late last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

ALSO READ: Covid-19: Immense efforts are on for next-generation vaccines, says top health expert "There might be a completely new variant emerging that we are not able to predict today," Marco Cavaleri added. Earlier on 1 September, the EMA approved vaccines by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that are adapted to tackle the older BA.1 subvariant of Omicron.

A second “bivalent” coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the UK’s health watchdog ahead of a series of booster jabs this autumn.

a fast-tracked approach. CDC’s director Dr. Rochelle Walensky must give the final sign-off before the shots are available.In June, the FDA ordered vaccine makers to tweak their shots to target BA.4 and BA.5, becoming the so-called "combo shot."FILE - Medical staff at Howard University give COVID-19 Vaccination doses for Hospital Staff Members on Dec.

Coronavirus could have a new strange symptom that only occurs at night.While most of Britain moves on from the deadly pandemic, scientists are busy investigating the symptoms of Omicron's BA.5 variant.Thought to be highly contagious, but not as deadly as previous variants and strains, a new study has warned of a tell-tale sign that you might have it.READ MORE: Fish and chip shops face 'extinction' as cost of living situation 'worse than pandemic'According to Professor Luke O'Neil form Trinity College Dublin, night sweats are caused by the new strain.He said: “One extra symptom from BA.5 I saw this morning is night sweats.“The disease is slightly different because the virus has changed.“There is some immunity to it – obviously with the T-cells and so on – and that mix of your immune system and the virus being slightly different might give rise to a slightly different disease, strangely enough night sweats being a feature.“But very importantly, if you are vaccinated and you’re boosted, it doesn’t progress into severe disease is the message to keep reminding peopleNight sweats haven't actually been added to the official NHS list of symptoms yet, as the UK topped 205,000 deaths earlier this month.One slight positive of the new strain, is that you are around 20 to 50% less likely to get long Covid compared to other strains, according to the Zoe Covid study group.Having identified 56,003 cases of Covid positive cases between December 20, 2021 and March 9, 2022, and compared them to around 41,000 cases of Delate, it was discovered that the chances of suffering from Long Covid is lower.Dr Claire Steves from King’s College London said: “The Omicron variant appears substantially less likely to cause Long-COVID than previous

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - An amazing opportunity for a young baker, as she will sell her goods inside some local grocery stores. It’s all thanks to a special program designed to give young entrepreneurs the leg up they need to get their businesses started."I’m making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Right now, I’m making 504 of them.

COVID-19 jab, known as the Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron vaccine, to be given as a booster. Half of the Moderna-made vaccine (25 micrograms) targets the original virus strain from 2020 and the other half (25 micrograms) targets the Omicron variant. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it was found to "meet the UK regulator's standards of safety, quality and effectiveness".

FURTHER APPROVALS European Medicines Agency (EMA) officials expect COVID variant-adapted vaccines to be approved in the European Union by September, and have signalled the regulator is open to using shots targeting the older BA.1 variant this autumn, given those specifically targeting newer subvariants are further behind in clinical development. In contrast, the U.S.

NDTV, that the strains of Omicron circulating in Delhi currently are more infectious than the base strain that had been detected earlier in January this year.   Dr. Arora has further stated that the effectiveness of the vaccines has also reduced significantly to 20-30 per cent.

monkeypox and one death so far. Monkeypox virus strain A.2 in 2 UAE-returned travellers Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology recently analysed two monkeypox cases of travellers who had returned from the UAE. The analysis showed that two cases were infected with monkeypox virus strain A.2, which is related to the lineage of hMPXV-1A clade 3.

WASHINGTON - Falling gas prices gave Americans a slight break from the pain of high inflation last month, though the surge in overall prices slowed only modestly from the four-decade high it reached in June.Consumer prices jumped 8.5% in July compared with a year earlier, the government said Wednesday, down from a 9.1% year-over-year jump in June. On a monthly basis, prices were unchanged from June to July, the smallest such rise more than two years.Still, prices are spiking across a wide range of goods and services, leaving most Americans worse off.

Pope Francis celebrates mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre on July 28, 2022 in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Canada. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was "a bit of a test" that showed he needs to slow down and one day possibly retire.Speaking to reporters while traveling home from northern Nunavut, the 85-year-old Francis stressed that he hadn’t thought about resigning but said "the door is open" and there was nothing wrong with a pope stepping down."It’s not strange.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden likely contracted a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test, according to an update from his doctor on Saturday.The variant, known as BA.5, is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year, and it's believed to be responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country.Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, wrote in his latest update on Biden's condition that Biden's earlier symptoms, including a runny nose and a cough, have become "less troublesome." O'Connor's earlier notes did not mention the sore throat or body aches.Biden's vital signs, such as blood pressure and respiratory rate, "remain entirely normal," and his oxygen saturation levels are "excellent" with "no shortness of breath at all," the doctor wrote.O'Connor said the results of the preliminary sequencing that indicated the BA.5 variant do not affect Biden's treatment plan "in any way."US President Joe Biden delivers remarks virtually during his meeting with his economic team to discuss lowering gas prices in the South Court Auditorium of the Executive Office Building on July 22, 2022.

COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to include all adults.That’s despite recent moves by other provinces to make the booster accessible to everyone over the age of 18. Manitoba expands COVID vaccine eligibility to include kids four and under Dr.

A customer refuels a car at a Royal Dutch Shell PLC gas station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Following last month's winter storm in Texas, the national gas price average has jumped nearly 40 cents to $2.86, repor PHILADELPHIA - As the price of gas continues to hover in the $4 range, many across the country are still struggling to keep their tanks full, but a local church is once again stepping in to help. The Philadelphia church Dare To Imagine is having another free gas giveaway in the city. "The cost of gas remains a source of great financial strain for everyone," the church's pastor Kevin R.

sleeping positions are favoured over others and many believe that particular position helps promote a faster and better sleep. However, some sleeping positions are said to impact other health conditions and should be avoided or at least altered in some way to minimise the damage.

coronavirus vaccines. In a recent report, the Mayo Clinic said that the strain is "hypercontagious" and is contributing to increases in hospitalisations and ICU admissions.

drug trafficking, according to the Mexican government’s national arrest registry.Caro Quintero remains under indictment in Los Angeles for the crime.Caro Quintero and co-defendants were indicted in May 1987 in Los Angeles federal court on conspiracy and racketeering charges related to the kidnapping, torture and murder in Mexico of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.

If you have heard of the COVID variant “Centaurus", and wondering what it is, don't panic immediately. It is not a new variant but a subvariant of Omicron.  The BA.2.75 sub-variant, which has been first detected in India in early May, has been nicknamed Centaurus.  In India, BA.2.75is rapidly displacing the previously dominant BA.2 variant in many countries.

LOS ANGELES - Rapper Snoop Dogg poked fun at the president with a picture he posted on Instagram of a weed strain called "Sleepy Joe OG." The photo posted earlier this week of the "premium cannabis" package shows a picture of President Joe Biden drawn in a similar artistic style to the iconic Obama poster created by artist Shepard Fairey.The musician’s post quickly went viral amassing more than 621,000 likes as of July 14."WHERE AM I???" the package reads. Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr., has always been a well-known critic of United States presidents including Donald Trump. Snoop Dogg has also been active in campaigning for the Los Angeles mayoral race. In May, the artist endorsed real estate developer Rick Caruso. FOX 11's Elex Michaelson reported rapper Snoop Dogg called Caruso the "real deal" in the billionaire's push to lead the city of Los Angeles.Snoop Dogg also pointed out the fact that Caruso had been active in the L.A.

Centaurus is the nickname of a new coronavirus subvariant that has been detected in around 10 countries, including the UK.

First Nations in northern Ontario are in a “very dire situation” as they deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases and an ongoing shortage of health-care workers.Dr. Lloyd Douglas with the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority says rising cases in remote First Nation communities in the north are putting an “additional burden” on health-care services that were already strained before the pandemic.In Sandy Lake First Nation, more than one seventh of the population — or 613 people out of roughly 3,500 people — had COVID-19 as of Monday.The chief of the First Nation says her community currently has about half of the 12 nurses it’s supposed to.

Air Canada president and CEO Michael Rousseau said the airline’s operations and its ability to serve customers with its normal standards of care have been affected. Half of domestic flights to Canada’s big airports delayed, cancelled last week “The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world air transport system to a halt in early 2020,” said Rousseau.

coronavirus where we have Alpha, Delta, Omicron all coming from this strain in Wuhan," says Johannes Krause, a palaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who co-led the study, published in Nature. Several years ago, Philip Slavin, an economic and environmental historian at the University of Stirling, UK, and a co-lead author of the study, suggested the disease's emergence might be linked to an unusual surge of deaths in a town in Central Asia in 1338-1339.  The cemeteries, known as Kara-Djigach and Burana, held an unusually high number of tombstones dated to 1338 and 1339, ten of which made explicit reference to a pestilence.

NEW YORK - Genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the U.S., health officials said Friday, raising the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time.Many of the U.S. cases were caused by the same strain as recent cases in Europe, but a few samples show a different strain, federal health officials said. Each strain had been seen in U.S.

darts' exhaustive schedule. The world champion is one of the several players who have been knocked sideways by illness or injury in 2022 so far. Wright suffers from gallstones and was left in agony by the condition at the UK Open in March.

ROME (AP) - Doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to help heal Pope Francis' bad knee. He has other ideas.According to a viral video of the pope at the end of a recent audience, Francis quipped that what he really needs for the pain is a shot of tequila.Francis was riding in the popemobile in St.

Alberta’s spring budget are already open and staffed in hospitals across the province.In the 2022 budget tabled earlier this year, the province committed $300 million over the next three years to open and staff 50 new permanent ICU beds across Alberta to help build frontline health-care capacity. Alberta adding up to 50 ICU beds to health system this year In an update at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre Friday morning, Kenney said the new beds will help add capacity to Alberta’s strained health-care system.

WASHINGTON - Inflation slowed in April after seven months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households.Consumer prices jumped 8.3% last month from 12 months earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That was below the 8.5% year-over-year surge in March, which was the highest rate since 1981.On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3% from March to April, a still-elevated rate but the smallest increase in eight months.

Manitoba Camping Association (MCA) is getting a one-time cash injection from the province to help bounce back from COVID-19.The government announced $750,000 in funding for the association Tuesday. Manitoba campgrounds drying off, preparing for busy season “Manitoba children benefit from being outdoors and the learning experiences overnight camps offer,” said Municipal Relations Minister Eileen Clarke.“We recognize the importance of community-based organizations in building thriving and sustainable communities across the province.

the rapid tests were developed for use with the original SARS-CoV-2 viral strain that emerged late in 2019, it is possible that they may not remain sensitive to the new and more infectious variants. 

The Mobil station at the corner of La Cienega and Beverly advertise prices higher than the norm throughout the Los Angeles area. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The price of diesel hit an all-time high in the United States this week as energy markets around the world cope with ongoing disruptions amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The average price of a gallon of diesel was $5.296 on Sunday, up about 4.3% from one week ago and nearly twice as much as one year ago. Gas prices are also elevated, standing at $4.187 a gallon on Sunday, down slightly from the all-time high of $4.331 on March 11, according to AAA. While average Americans are feeling the pain at the pump with high gas prices, the trucking industry has been hit hard by the diesel surge. Customer pumps 7.275 gallons of regular gas at 6.95 a gallon for a total of 50.63 dollars at a Mobil station at the corner of La Cienega and Beverly.

Omicron variant of Covid has show two early warning signs that you might have the virus – even if you've been vaccinated.According to experts, if you feel dizzy or fatigued, you might have caught the virus – regardless of how many jabs or boosters you have had.The variant was first found in South Africa and Hong Kong in November, 2021, and came to the UK a few weeks later in December.It was thought to be a much milder strain when compared to the then-more dominant Delta strain, which had taken hold of the country at the time.According to a recent report published in infectious disease and epidemiology journal, Eurosurveillance, there were eight key symptoms experienced by a Norwegian group of fully vaccinated partygoers recently.These were a cough, runny nose, fatigue, sore throat, headache, muscle pain, fever and sneezing.The study found that cough, runny nose and fatigue were among the most common symptoms in the vaccinated individuals while sneezing and fever were least common in the milder strain of the virus.This prompted nausea to be added to the official symptoms list worldwide, as dizziness was already on it.And according to Professor Tim Spector, the man behind the much-lauded ZOE Symptom Study app, around half of all new colds are actually Covid.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.Fatigue can also present itself as sore or weak muscles, headaches, and even blurry vision and loss of appetite.The news of two new symptoms comes as two new variants of Omicrom were found in Bengaluru, India.According to New Indian Express, BA.2.10 and BA.2.12 were found, but not much data exists yet as these are the first sightings of the new variant.A spokesman for the

Amber Davies celebrated reaching her eight-month mark of being alcohol-free on Thursday.The 25 year old gave her sobriety update in a post shared on Instagram Stories as she discussed the improvement quitting alcohol has had on her mental health. Love Island graduate Amber spoke candidly in response to a fan’s question as they asked her whether or not she would consider drinking again in the future. “It’s a hard one…the impact it's had on my mental health and the relationship with myself has been life changing,” she replied.

TORONTO, ON - APRIL 28: Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers calls for a foul during Game Six of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena on April 28, 2022 in Toronto, Canada. NOTE TO USER: User expressl TORONTO - Joel Embiid had 33 points and 10 rebounds, James Harden added 22 points and 15 assists and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Toronto Raptors 132-97 in Game 6 to end the first-round series Thursday night.Philadelphia will face Miami in the second round.

Mirage News. 

PHILADELPHIA - Pascal Siakam scored 23 points, Precious Achiuwa had 17 and the Toronto Raptors forced a return home for Game 6 in their Eastern Conference first-round series against Philadelphia, beating the 76ers 103-88 on Monday night.Yo, Canada! Once holding a 3-0 series lead, the 76ers are headed back north.The Raptors have won two straight in the series and jumped all over injured Sixers center Joel Embiid and ineffective James Harden to make Thursday night's game a necessity.Embiid had 20 points and 11 rebounds playing with a thumb injury. Harden scored 15 points on 4-of-11 shooting.Sixers coach Doc Rivers is dragging the weight of ignominious NBA history with him through customs.

As much as 80-90% of blood and throat swab samples collected from covid-19 patients in Delhi have been found to contain Omicron sub-variants, according to researchers at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS). 

New Indian Express, “As per GISAID data, we have found BA.2.10 and BA.2.12, both sublineages of BA.2, in a few samples from Bengaluru. However, we need more samples and data to know more on this mutation. It is an alias of B.1.1.529.2.10, lineage from pango designation issue #496."