With more than 12 million infections a week, Europe says it is entering the final stages of the outbreak...

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WHO European Office:

The COVID-19 pandemic in Europe is in its final stages

On February 3, local time, Hans Kruger, director of the European office of the World Health Organization, said that the new crown epidemic in Europe is entering the final stage.

Hans Krueger said that the European region has recorded 12 million new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past week. It is also the highest record in Europe since the outbreak began. This is mainly caused by the high contagiousness of the Omikeron mutant strain. Local hospitalizations continue to increase, especially in countries with low vaccination rates. Overall, however, the number of severely ill patients has not increased significantly. At present, the number of epidemic deaths in the European region is beginning to level off.

Hans believes that the positive effects of vaccination are becoming more pronounced, the disease situation caused by the Omiljung variant strain is milder, and there will be a favorable seasonal pause in the spread of the virus in the coming spring. All this means that European countries can now control the spread of the virus. "Overall, it gives us the opportunity to spend a longer period of calm," Hans said. (CCTV News)

European Drug Administration:

There is insufficient evidence to support it

Receive a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine booster

The European Medicines Agency said on the 3rd that there is not enough evidence to prove that a second dose of the new crown vaccine should be given, but once again stressed the importance of the first dose of the booster.

Marco Cavalieri, head of the vaccine division of the European Food and Drug Administration, said at a news conference on the same day that the evidence such as current clinical trials is not enough to support their recommendation that people receive a second booster injection. However, he stressed that it is very important to continue to promote vaccination, including the first dose of booster injection, which the data proves to be very protective.

Cavalieri said the European Food and Drug Administration has looked at other subtypes of the new coronavirus variant, Omiljunn, such as the subtype variant BA.2 of Omikejong, which is spreading in many countries, and it is unclear how different BA.2 is from Omiljung in terms of transmission and immunity evasion. (Xinhua News Agency)

On the 3rd, there were 12 new cases of indigenous infection

4 provinces are involved

According to the website of the National Health Commission, at 0-24:00 on February 3, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 12 new locally confirmed cases. Including 5 cases in Guangdong, including 4 cases in Shenzhen City and 1 case in Huizhou City, 4 cases in Tianjin, all in Hebei District, 2 cases in Zhejiang, all in Hangzhou City, and 1 case in Beijing, in Chaoyang District.

The Oxford University research team found a new mutant strain of HIV:

More destructive!

On February 3, Science published an Oxford-led study that found new HIV variants with higher toxicity and devastating health effects.

A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands, patients infected with the newly mutated virus have 3.5 to 5.5 times higher levels of the virus in their blood than other HIV-infected people, and CD4 cells decline twice as fast, putting them at risk of developing AIDS more quickly.

The researchers emphasize that the immune system declines faster due to variants, which makes it crucial to diagnose individuals early and start treatment as soon as possible.

Mainland scientists in stem cell therapy diabetes research

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