COVID variants surge in China and Europe with different responses
Published Date: 4/14/2022
Source: AP Archive
(9 Apr 2022) WORLD COVID SYMPTOMS SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 5:33 ASSOCIATED PRESS Puxi area, Shanghai, China - 29 March 2022 1. Pan of residents waiting to take a voluntary COVID-19 test 2. Man picking up food order from restaurant where staff worker in PPE guards the entrance 3. Sign on door about COVID-19 restrictions 4. Various of Shanghai skyline 5. Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, one of Shanghai's signature shopping areas, with few people 6. Mid of terrace of closed shops ASSOCIATED PRESS Reading, UK - 8 April 2022 ++VIDEO CALL++ 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology, University of Reading: "We looked to China and Hong Kong, for example. Their numbers have rocketed. That seems largely because they haven't had such a good booster programme as the UK has. Israel is ahead of the UK in terms of in terms of its boosters. But the UK is a geographically small, densely populated country, so I'm not at all surprised that the numbers of infections have gone up like they have." ASSOCIATED PRESS London, UK - 14 January 2022 8. Various of landmarks in central London ASSOCIATED PRESS Reading, UK - 8 April 2022 ++VIDEO CALL++ 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology, University of Reading: "You can get general effects on the rest of your system from your immune system, trying to to attack and destroy the virus. That's quite common in infectious diseases. So this expanded list of symptoms, we've known that there are lots of other symptoms associated with COVID for quite some time now. So it's really about time, entirely appropriate that they get added to the list." ASSOCIATED PRESS London, UK - 14 January 2022 10. Various of traffic and people in central London ASSOCIATED PRESS Reading, UK - 8 April 2022 ++VIDEO CALL++ 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology, University of Reading: "Well in parts of the UK, in England, we're getting about one in 13 people infected at the moment or over recent weeks, and there are older people becoming infected, we've seen it in other age groups as well, although the numbers go up and down. So basically everybody has or is being infected by this. But when you remove the measures that were put in place by the government to keep infection down, it stands to reason, that in their absence, if they did anything at all, I'm quite sure they did, those infection numbers will go back up, but the consequences for that are quite different from what they were two years ago." ASSOCIATED PRESS Cambridge, UK - 7 January 2022 12. Various of scientists in laboratory testing for variants of COVID-19 ASSOCIATED PRESS Reading, UK - 8 April 2022 ++VIDEO CALL++ 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology, University of Reading: "You get different versions of omicron, when we go from one Greek letter to the other (Greek letters used to describe mutations of COVID-19), that's quite a big jump in the biology of the virus. These are more subtle changes. And with, for example, BA2 it seems that we have a fitter, more able virus able to pass from person to person. Other variants might be just as transmissible as what's gone before, or maybe slightly less, and they'll not be very successful at all and they'll probably die out pretty quickly." ASSOCIATED PRESS Cambridge, UK - 7 January 2022 14. Various of scientists in laboratory scanning batches of samples ASSOCIATED PRESS Reading, UK - 8 April 2022 ++VIDEO CALL++ ASSOCIATED PRESS LEADIN: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0ea1fc99907e47538db5c30c74d63e21