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On 25 March, Italy, together with Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain, sent a joint letter to the Council of the EU, calling for the issuing of a new common debt instrument, nicknamed in the media as "eurobond" or "corona bond", to help funding the measures taken against the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
The Omicron variant, known as lineage B.1.1.529, was declared a variant of concern by the World Health Organization on 26 November 2021. [202] The variant has a large number of mutations, of which some are concerning. Some evidence shows that this variant has an increased risk of reinfection. Studies are underway to evaluate the exact impact on ...
[6] [7] These numbers suggest, for example, that there were roughly 10,900 excess deaths in March of 2020 were not been reported as COVID-19 deaths. [8] European countries used different criteria to count coronavirus-related fatalities, and because of this, the Italian statistics can be difficult to compare.
This article contains the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population as of 22 December 2024, by country. It also has cumulative death totals by country. For these numbers over time see the tables, graphs, and maps at COVID-19 pandemic deaths and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.
The highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant is now predominant in Italy, the National Health Institute (ISS) said on Friday, accounting for 81% of cases in a flash survey on Jan. 3. The ...
1.2 February–March 2020: Clusters in Northern Italy. 1.3 March 2020: Spread to other regions. 1.4 March–May 2020: Under national lockdown.
[10] [11] It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. [12] Following the original B.1.1.529 variant, several subvariants of Omicron have emerged including: BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4, and BA.5. [13] Since October 2022, two subvariants of BA.5 called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have emerged.
The Gamma variant (P.1) [a] was [6] [7] one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. [8] This variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been named lineage P.1 and has 17 amino acid substitutions , ten of which in its spike protein, including these three designated to be of particular concern: N501Y , E484K and K417T.