Several maritime-related rules to combat COVID have been cancelled at the Port of Geraldton, according to a new Harbour Master Instruction from Mid West Ports.
The Instruction noted that vaccinations have occurred on a global scale, that a “high” level...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/port-of-geraldton-cancels-suite-of-anti-covid-measures/
A new, rapidly spreading variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, means a rise in new infections could be around the corner. And while it likely won’t skirt immunity completely, the variant could dodge some of our defenses thanks to a mutational boost, reports Scientific American.
The most contagious strainXBB.1.5—unofficially nicknamed “Kraken” by some scientists online—is an Omicron subvariant that has caught the attention of virologists in...
https://mfame.guru/why-covids-xbb-1-5-kraken-variant-is-so-contagious/
The full repatriation of over 600 i-Kiribati seafarers to Tarawa, capital of the Republic of Kiribati, has been completed.
Six seafarers have recently touched down in Tarawa, marking the end of a two-year period of repatriation blighted by pandemic-related restrictions and delays.
The repatriation was led by a coalition of employers, unions and NGOs, in tandem with the government of Kiribati, who successfully navigated...
Continued controls on seafarers arriving in New South Wales now seem to be rather pointless because they can no longer fulfil their policy goals and their monetary and non-monetary costs now outweigh their benefits, Shipping Australia has said in a...
Relief has arrived for the struggling NSW landside freight supply chains which have been battered by workers falling prey to Omicron-Delta and to being forced to isolate by NSW government rules. An amendment that entered into force today (Friday 14 January 2022) makes it abundantly clear that freight workers have an exemption from the isolation rules that enables them to go to work.
Empty supermarket shelves and extensive...
New January 2022 data from the Neptune Declaration shows that 59.8% of seafarers in its sample have been vaccinated against COVID. This is an increase of 10.3 percentage points since November 2021.
By way of comparison, the proportion of the EU...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/nearly-two-thirds-of-seafarers-now-vaccinated-against-covid/
About 41% of the world’s seafaring workforce has been COVID-vaccinated, according to the latest data from the Neptune Declaration’s Crew Change Indicator.
The Neptune Declaration is an agreement subscribed to by about 850 organizations that are urging the end of the crew change crisis.
The Neptune Declaration Crew Change Indicator provides up-to-date information on the crew change situation. The Indicator is...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/seafarer-covid-vaccination-numbers-continue-to-climb/
A senior Chinese epidemiologist has demanded that the second phase of investigation into the origins of coronavirus should be conducted in the United States, reports Reuters.
In his statement, he referred to a study which...
https://mfame.guru/chinese-epidemiologist-demands-next-covid-origin-probe-in-us/
Almost 90% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 reported at least one persistent symptom, says an article on Healio.
Research conducted“For the clinicians, the game is not over when you discharge the subjects from the acute ward,” Angelo Carfi, MD, of the geriatrics department at Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, told.“We should try to figure out a way to help them to recover as quickly as they can.”
Carfi and colleagues followed up with COVID-19 patients from Agostino Gemelli...
https://mfame.guru/covid-19-recovered-patients-report-persistent-symptoms/
According to an article published in Science Daily,...
https://mfame.guru/scientists-found-the-human-genes-that-resist-covid-infection/