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Vaccines: Some experts fear corners may be cut as two teams are pursuing very different approaches

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Five years, minimum. That’s how long it usually takes to develop a vaccine. Yet of the 78 being worked on for Covid-19, five are already in trials — and not just in labs; most are being tested on humans. Last month, a microbiology researcher at the University of Oxford became the first UK volunteer to … Read more

Extreme isolation: world’s last virus-free corners

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Pacific islands, Antarctic bases and secretive North Korea are among the last few places in the world which have not reported a single of coronavirus.  The tropical island of Palau in the northern Pacific is hundreds of miles from its nearest neighbours and has yet to discover an outbreak.  Nonetheless, the country has adopted strict … Read more

Ski hell taught me not to cut corners on insurance, says LUCY WHITE

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Back on the slopes: Lucy White had taken out travel insurance before her accident in 2018, but it was still a hard fight to get a payout Lying immobilised on my back in a French ski resort trauma centre, after a nasty fall in which I’d broken two vertebrae, I was relieved to find out … Read more