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Channel
COVID-19 Info
@virus
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
5,544subscribers
+51 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001379996121 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @virus |
| Created | 26 March 2020 — measured — dated from the channel’s first post |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 25 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/virus |
Topic
Health & wellness — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 86% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Nov 2026, 22:49 | 5,544 | +27 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 10:59 | 5,517 | +28 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 13:27 | 5,489 | +16 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 04:11 | 5,473 | +32 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 23:09 | 5,441 | +14 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 19:01 | 5,427 | +11 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 03:47 | 5,416 | +32 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 21:29 | 5,384 | +9 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 15:37 | 5,375 | -9 |
| 11 Oct 2026, 07:18 | 5,384 | -7 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 09:42 | 5,391 | -15 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 21:42 | 5,406 | -22 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 04:56 | 5,428 | -14 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 00:36 | 5,442 | -5 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 06:41 | 5,447 | -4 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 21:20 | 5,451 | -8 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 13:03 | 5,459 | -8 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 03:15 | 5,467 | -10 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 01:03 | 5,477 | -4 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 17:35 | 5,481 | first reading |
Engagement
9 posts held, back to 26 March 2020 — the reader has reached the start of this channel’s public history, so this is the full archive Telegram still exposes. Read across 8 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 9 posts for this entry, the most recent from 21 April 2020. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
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Channel created
Showing the 9 most recent of 9 posts we hold for @virus. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Mentions
Named by 35 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it. The 22 listed below are the most frequent namers; the rest are counted above but not each listed.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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@ARMAGEDDON_CRYPTO · 9002 postsЛУДИКИ |РУЛЕТКИ С ПОДАРКАМИ NFT ПРОМОКОДЫ КЕЙСЫ
@ludiki_promo · 1,1462 postsMr Not | نات کوین ایران
@notcoinmint · 31,9842 posts🎐 Чиᴧ-ɜᴏнᴀ зака 🎐
@Sly_ZackPRS · 9,8592 postsStars from boss
@stars_from_boss · 252 postsStarsMagic Новости | Раздачи
@StarsMagicnews · 202 postsMAJSTER NFTS
@winunits · 16,1302 postsGifts | Crypto 𝔹𝕦𝕝𝕝ツ
@crypto_news_bull · 2691 postCryptoPlus
@cryptopluls · 911 postПеченька 🍪
@Freeestarr · 181 postMr Giveaway | مستر گیواوی
@giveawaypremimum · 15,7521 postзарабатывать 👨💻
@heartzrodovie · 21 postmrgriboss • -300000$ в gift
@mrgriboss · 86,9151 post▫️Rechtsanwältin Beate Bahner
@rechtsanwaeltin_beate_bahner · 81,8661 postCloud
@societychannel · 11 post
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
@corona_infokanal_bmg · 103,8951 postCORONAVIRUS2020.KZ
@coronavirus2020_kz · 3541 postCPRC Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia
@cprckkm · 340,4001 postGouvernement Togolais
@gouvtg · 16,2771 postgov.sg
@Govsg · 238,2811 post香港抗疫資訊頻道
@HKFIGHTCOVID19 · 5,8011 postعش بصحة
@LiveWellMOH · 69,5071 postMinistério da Saúde
@MinisterioDaSaudeBR · 17,2761 postMinistero della Salute
@MinisteroSalute · 282,5301 postMinisterio de Salud Pública de Cuba
@MINSAPCuba · 35,6331 postوزارة الصحة الأردنية
@mohgovjordan · 5,4761 postמשרד הבריאות
@MOHreport · 76,4601 postMyGov Newsdesk
@MyGovCoronaNewsdesk · 366,3871 postNigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
@ncdcgov · 55,0931 postШтаб КР по COVID-19
@RshKRCOV · 5,0751 postMinisterio de Sanidad
@sanidadgob · 136,2241 post.
@stopcoronavirusrussia · 1,1151 postStopCoV.ge 🇬🇪
@StopCoVge · 1,7711 post
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
- Dead references
- 1
- handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
- Evidenced gone
- 0
- we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
- Never seen alive
- 1
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@virus named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
named in 3 posts, 8 August 2026 – 13 August 2026
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“COVID-19 Info” (@virus), 5,544 subscribers as measured 8 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/virus.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.