Online app calculates risk of catching Covid-19 in various scenarios

Outdoor spaces are safer than indoor ones for catching coronavirus, and more people pose a greater risk than smaller groups, public health officials frequently remind us amid the pandemic. But a new online tool can help you nail down just how likely to you are to catch coronavirus if someone in your home, office or … Read more

Interactive tool calculates the risk of catching Covid-19 if one person is infected

A complex mathematical equation to work out the risk of catching the coronavirus if one person in a room is infected Covid-19 has been turned into a handy online tool. Created by researchers at MIT, it assumes a room hosts one infected person and allows the user to customise the settings of the room and … Read more

£6m borrowed for every Covid death: Economist calculates terrifying price UK’s paying for pandemic

So, now we know. Our reward for suffering 27 days of an additional lockdown is a more restrictive regime than the one we waved goodbye to on November 5. Apart from the lucky 1 per cent who live in Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the Scilly Isles, the introduction of the tier system will … Read more