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Still believe in the WHO bullshit and talk about vaccine? You are going to die if you go along bullshit.
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New Covid-19 variant causes surge of cases around world, including Southeast Asia, WHO monitoring rise
Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective against this variant.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced it is monitoring the rise of the new Covid-19 variant NB.1.8.1 last week, after a surge was discovered in various parts of the world, including Europe, Southeast Asia, and North and South America.
"Current data do not indicate that this variant leads to more severe illness than other variants in circulation," it noted.
Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) similarly stated that they are monitoring the recent increase, and there is no indication that the variants circulating locally are more transmissible or cause more severe disease compared to previously circulating variants.
Variant first detected in January 2025
According to WHO, the NB.1.8.1 variant was first detected in samples collected in January 2025, with a noticeable rise from early April to mid-May.
The organisation noted it will continue to monitor the situation as more evidence and data from additional countries become available.
Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective against this variant against symptomatic and severe disease.
Singapore experienced a recent rise in Covid-19 cases, with an estimated 14,200 cases in the week of Apr. 27 to May 3.
Daily Covid-19 hospitalisations also rose from 102 to 133 over the same period, though the average daily Intensive Care Unit cases decreased from three to two cases.
"As with other endemic respiratory diseases, periodic COVID-19 waves are expected throughout the year," said MOH in a press release on May 13.
However, more vulnerable individuals, such as those aged 60 and above, medically vulnerable individuals, or residents of aged care facilities, are recommended to keep updated with vaccinations.
This includes receiving an additional dose around a year after their last dose.
Healthcare workers, people living or working with medically vulnerable individuals, are also encouraged to receive the vaccine.
Other individuals aged six months and above who wish to receive the COVID-19 vaccine can continue to do so, said MOH.
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June 01, 2025, 11:29 AM
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced it is monitoring the rise of the new Covid-19 variant NB.1.8.1 last week, after a surge was discovered in various parts of the world, including Europe, Southeast Asia, and North and South America.
"Current data do not indicate that this variant leads to more severe illness than other variants in circulation," it noted.
Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) similarly stated that they are monitoring the recent increase, and there is no indication that the variants circulating locally are more transmissible or cause more severe disease compared to previously circulating variants.
Variant first detected in January 2025
According to WHO, the NB.1.8.1 variant was first detected in samples collected in January 2025, with a noticeable rise from early April to mid-May.
The organisation noted it will continue to monitor the situation as more evidence and data from additional countries become available.
Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective against this variant against symptomatic and severe disease.
Singapore experienced a recent rise in Covid-19 cases, with an estimated 14,200 cases in the week of Apr. 27 to May 3.
Daily Covid-19 hospitalisations also rose from 102 to 133 over the same period, though the average daily Intensive Care Unit cases decreased from three to two cases.
"As with other endemic respiratory diseases, periodic COVID-19 waves are expected throughout the year," said MOH in a press release on May 13.
However, more vulnerable individuals, such as those aged 60 and above, medically vulnerable individuals, or residents of aged care facilities, are recommended to keep updated with vaccinations.
This includes receiving an additional dose around a year after their last dose.
Healthcare workers, people living or working with medically vulnerable individuals, are also encouraged to receive the vaccine.
Other individuals aged six months and above who wish to receive the COVID-19 vaccine can continue to do so, said MOH.
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New COVID-Wave Scare-Campaign: A Massive Flop...
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUN 26, 2025 - 09:45 AM
Authored by Rebekah Barnett via The Brownstone Institute,
Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway in Australia.
Like the Marvel franchise, the entertainment content exists largely to create demand for merchandise.
Unlike most Marvel films, this latest virus fear-mongering drive is turning out to be a massive flop.
The hook: There’s a new “highly contagious” Covid Omicron subvariant in town, catchily named NB.1.8.1.
Sticking with time-tested tradition, health authorities, experts, and media are playing the ‘cases, cases, cases’ angle, as the latest variant “sweeps the nation” with what I calculate to be Australia’s twelfth Covid wave since the pandemic scare series kicked off in 2020.
Exposition: “According to Griffith University, the NB.1.8.1 variant makes up more than 40 per cent of total COVID cases tested in Victoria, around 25 per cent in Western Australia and New South Wales, around 20 per cent in Queensland and less than 10 per cent in South Australia,” reports ABC.
“There are hundreds of different strains of Omicron, and the new subvariant NB.1.8.1 is driving up infections and hospitalisations, particularly in Asia and Western Australia,” reports the Daily Mail.
Narrator’s aside: Case counts and hospitalisations are well within the normal range in Western Australia (WA), and no one has been admitted to ICU with Covid for months, according to the latest WA Health reporting.
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