182 Million Cases and Malaysians at Home for 468 Days

Now driven by the Delta variant, Covid cases have started to surge again. Already, 182 million cases worldwide. 

To make matters worse, a version of the Delta variant – known as Delta Plus – has raised concern among virologists. It is found in at least 22 cases in the Indian state of Maharashtra last week and it is said it could be more transmissible than the original Delta variant. Public Health England have confirmed 41 of the 75,953 UK Delta cases were caused by the new mutation. 

These days, the news are mostly about Covid, Covid, Covid! 

In case, you're interested to know, Malaysians have been "locked up" at home for 468 days! And still, there's no end in sight! 

The US Food and Drug Administration have added a warning about the risk of heart inflammation to fact sheets for Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines. 

The notice on Friday noted that reports of adverse events following vaccination – particularly after the second dose – suggest increased risks of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, or inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart. 

At the end of the second week of June, more than 1,200 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis have been reported to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The cases reportedly appear to be notably higher in males and in the week after the second vaccine dose.

It looks like Covid is gonna be a long-term tenant on this planet.