Category: strain

Queensland Wants Commonwealth to Take ‘Greater Responsibility’ for Quarantine

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to take more responsibility of the country’s international quarantine program to keep out the new highly infectious variants of the CCP virus. While the Commonwealth is responsible for quarantining international arrivals, states and territories make their own rules due to Australia’s federated political system. States…


CDC Says New, More Contagious, COVID-19 Strain Transmitting Person-to-Person in US

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday that the new variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the United Kingdom and now reported in Colorado has likely been spreading undetected person-to-person in the United States. The new strain is one of two new mutations of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus,…


‘No Evidence’ New Virus Strain More Transmissible, Pathogenic: Operation Warp Speed Official

There’s no evidence that the new strain of the CCP virus is more transmissible, an official with the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed program said Monday. “I think scientifically, to date, there is no hard evidence that this virus is actually more transmissible,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the program’s chief scientific adviser, told reporters during a…