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UK Covid cases surge following Queen's Jubilee celebrations, new variants become dominant U.K. Covid-19 cases are on the rise again, according to new data, which points to an increase in infections following the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Karen Gilchrist CNBC

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Monkeypox Outbreak Strain Has Far More Mutations Than Expected Evidence of continued adaptation may account for suspected increase in transmissibility Kristina Fiore medpagetoday

The strain of monkeypox involved in the current global outbreak differs from its parent strain by about 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) -- far more than would be expected for an orthopoxvirus, researchers reported.

Sanofi, GSK variant-specific COVID shot found effective against Omicron Late-stage data on an experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Sanofi and GSK has showed the shot confers protection against the Omicron variant of the virus, the companies said on Friday. Natalie Grover Reuters

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New coronavirus subvariants escape antibodies from vaccination and prior Omicron infection, studies suggest | CNN Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous Covid-19 infection and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to new data from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of Harvard Medical School. Jacqueline Howard CNN

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