43% of Ukraine's population has antibodies to Covid-19

[Mary Wilson]

10:10, 30 January 2021
Source : 112 Ukraine

Almost every second resident of Ukraine has antibodies to Covid-19. This information was published by the head of the Department of Epidemiology of Lviv National Medical University Natalia Vinohrad.

"Despite the fact that a lot of people say that they have not been sick with coronavirus and have not experienced any similar symptoms, 43% of the population of Ukraine has antibodies," the doctor said.

According to her, such indicators are evidenced by data from epidemiological studies. Since the virus has been circulating for almost a year, many have encountered it and have an immune response from the body.

https://112.international/society/43-of-ukraines-population-has-antibodies-to-covid-19-58545.html

 

[kiwibird]

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-p...al-of-russian-covid-19-vaccines/31076443.html

Lawmakers in Ukraine's parliament have overwhelmingly voted to ban the approval of vaccines made in Russia.

At the same time, the parliament on January 29 eased the process for registering vaccines from the United States, the European Union, China, India, and Mexico.

Ukraine has so far not started vaccinating its citizens.

The government has said it expects to receive 100,000 to 200,000 doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc and Germany's BioNTech under the global COVAX initiative in February.
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The Health Ministry has recorded a steady decline in new infections, deaths, and hospitalizations in recent weeks.

More than 1.2 million coronavirus cases have been recorded since last March. More than 22,000 people have died from the virus.

https://www.worldometers.info/world...on is estimated,of the total world population.

• Ukraine 2020 population is estimated at 43,733,762 people at mid year according to UN data.

 

[kiwibird]

https://translate.googleusercontent....6rRl52oIO-xtQg


Influenza in Ukraine: already an epidemic or not yet?



February 6, 2019

According to the Center, epidemic thresholds have been exceeded in 11 oblasts. Most in Ivano-Frankivsk (91.6%) and Chernivtsi (53.9%) regions.


The incidence of influenza and SARS in the country as a whole is 552.3 per 100 thousand population, which is 6.5% higher than the epidemic threshold, which for Ukraine is 518.68.


According to the Health Center of the Ministry of Health, although the country has crossed the epidemic threshold, there is no epidemic.


"We don't have an epidemic, we have an increased incidence of influenza and SARS," Oksana Artemchuk, head of the flu and SARS center at the Health Center, told BBC News Ukraine.

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Flu symptoms:

• Fever that lasts for at least five days;
• Fever;
• Headache;
• Aching in muscles and joints;
• General weakness;
• Loss of appetite, possibly nausea;
• Cough that may last more than two weeks;
• Cold.

 

[kiwibird]

Antibodies decrease quite rapidly - perhaps the original article was referring to this;
https://translate.google.com/transl...rainian/vert-fut-53614178&prev=search&pto=aue

Several studies have shown that people who have relapsed Covid-19 still have T cells that can recognize the virus, regardless of whether they experience symptoms of the disease.


It is clear. However, scientists have recently discovered a more mysterious nuance. It turned out that in some people the test for antibodies to Covid-19 may be negative, and for T cells that are able to recognize the virus - positive.


This has suggested that a certain level of immunity to the disease may be twice as common as previously thought.


However, the biggest mystery was the fact that scientists found Covid-19-specific T cells in blood samples taken years before the pandemic.


It turns out that some people already had some degree of immunity to the coronavirus before the first person became ill.


As it turned out, surprisingly many people, 40-60% of those who have never been in contact with the virus, have such T cells.

 

[kiwibird]

https://translate.google.com/transl...-ludej-niz-vvazalosa.html&prev=search&pto=aue

In June, researchers tested 2,826 police, rescue and medical personnel for immunity to the SARS-COV-2 virus and found that one in four had elevated levels of T cells, which are responsible for recognizing and killing viruses in the body.
This means that these individuals had some level of protection against infection, but almost half of the subjects were never diagnosed with COVID-19 . According to scientists, this could trigger cross-immunity to such coronaviruses - such as those that cause colds.
Read also: Immunity against COVID-19 lasts longer in women than in menMoreover, four months later, the researchers found that none of the subjects, who had previously had large numbers of T cells, had contracted COVID-19 during that period.
So far, most studies have focused on antibodies. Antibodies and T cells work differently. Thus, antibodies aim to neutralize the virus before it enters the body's cells, while T cells find and destroy cells already infected with the virus.
Read also: Some people have a natural immunity to COVID-19Accordingly, leading PHE experts told reporters that relying solely on antibody testing to find out who is immune to the virus may not be enough, and in fact the number of people who are immune to COVID-19 may be much higher.
Earlier, Ukrinform reported that, according to scientists from Imperial College London, antibodies to COVID-19 can live only a few months . The results of the study suggested that the level of immunity of the population may decline after the first wave of the epidemic.