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May 3, 2024 · Since 2020, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been spreading and changing globally. These changes have led to the detection of variants in many countries around the world. The more significant of these variants are grouped in three different ways – variants under monitoring, variants of interest and variants of concern.
May 21, 2024 · But SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID, is still mutating. In April, a group of new virus strains known as the FLiRT variants (based on the technical names of their two mutations) emerged. The FLiRT strains are subvariants of Omicron. One of them, KP.2, accounted for 28.2% of COVID infections in the United States by the third week of ...
May 8, 2024 · Description of the tables. The tables include: Category: variant of concern (VOC), variant of interest (VOI), or variant under monitoring (VUM).. WHO label: As of 31st May 2021, WHO proposed labels for global SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants of interest to be used alongside the scientific nomenclature in communications about variants to the public.
May 13, 2024 · The version of the Covid-19 virus behind the latest spike in infections shares many of the same symptoms as earlier variants of Sars-CoV-2 : a sore throat, fatigue, headache and a cough ...
3 days ago · This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in May 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan , China, in December 2019.
2 days ago · Global COVID-19 Tracker. Published: May 20, 2024. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print. Cases and Deaths. Policy Actions. Methods. This tracker provides the cumulative number of confirmed...
May 23, 2024 · Severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome–related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV or SARS-CoV) is a species of virus consisting of many known strains. Two strains of the virus have caused outbreaks of severe respiratory diseases in humans: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), the cause of the 2002–2004 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and severe ...
