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No further action will be taken by the Health and Safety Executive over the collapse of part of a Georgian terrace in one of London’s most expensive streets. The home was reduced to rubble and around 40 people had to be evacuated when the disaster occurred on November 2. Construction work to build a mega-basement … Read more
No further action will be taken by the Health and Safety Executive over the collapse of part of a Georgian terrace in one of London’s most expensive streets. The home was reduced to rubble and around 40 people had to be evacuated when the disaster occurred on November 2. Construction work to build a mega-basement … Read more
Chinese spies have been looting British universities for years. That is one scandal. The other – even more outrageous – is that we are only now waking up to it. The fact that almost 200 leading UK academics are being investigated for their unwitting connections to Chinese weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes is scarcely … Read more
Bad news for hay fever sufferers! Pollen seasons start 20 days earlier, are 10 days longer, and feature 21% more pollen than in 1990 – with climate change to blame Researchers analysed measurements taken from 60 pollen stations in the US The results revealed that pollen seasons today start around 20 days earlier They suggest … Read more
Why gaffes – and an unhealthy, ageing nation – are to blame: BEN SPENCER analyses why Britain’s Covid-19 death toll is so high By Analysis By Ben Spencer For The Daily Mail Published: 23:03 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 23:19 GMT, 26 January 2021 Britain has the world’s highest death rate per person – … Read more
Top intensive care doctors told NHS staff not to blame people for breaking lockdown rules on Saturday, as the number of people on ventilators with Covid-19 surpassed 4,000 for the first time. Dr Alison Pittard and Dr Daniele Bryden, respectively the dean and vice dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, chided other healthcare … Read more
HEALTH NOTES: Going grey? Blame it on your ethnicity By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2021 The age we go grey depends on our ethnicity, according to researchers from Boston University in the US. By reviewing data from 69 publications on hair ageing, they … Read more
America is set to present dramatic new evidence that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab – in the final act of the Trump administration. Senior officials in Washington say that outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to make a ‘bombshell intervention’. They say he will reveal evidence that SARS-CoV-2 did not leap … Read more
Schools have triggered three times more Covid outbreaks than hospitals since October, official figures show as Boris Johnson today prepared to shut all classrooms until next month. Public Health England reports reveal 26 per cent of investigated Covid infection clusters — or 2,722 out of 10,000 — were linked to nurseries, primaries, secondaries and universities over the … Read more
Pfizer and AstraZeneca have rejected Government warnings of months-long vaccine supply gaps, claiming there will be enough doses to hit the country’s ambitious targets. England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty this week warned that vaccine availability issues will ‘remain the case for several months’ as firms struggle to keep up with global demand. In a bid … Read more