Study shows Delta variant fuelled 50% rise in UK Covid prevalence. Other updates: 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi receives first shipment of Sotrovimab medication 🇩🇪 CureVac's vaccine misses efficacy goal in mass trial 🇧🇷 Brazil reports nearly 3,000 new deaths For more:
Staff member collects PCR tests for Covid-19 from members of the public, who have done a test in their own car, at a mobile testing unit at Oasis Beach Swimming Pool in Bedford, Britain May 25, 2021. The rapid spread of the Delta coronavirus variant has driven a 50% rise in infections in England since May, a large prevalence study led by Imperial College London has found after Prime Minister Boris Johnson delayed the end of restrictions.
The study is one of the largest prevalence surveys in Britain, with 109,000 volunteers tested in its latest round.UAE's Abu Dhabi has received its first shipment of the coronavirus Sotrovimab medication, becoming the first city globally to receive it, the media office said. Results of the study, which tested the drug in 289 hospitalised adult patients with the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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