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More than 32,000 contacts of coronavirus-infected patients in England were not tracked down last week in worst performance yet, Test and Trace figures reveal Further 17,000 contacts were not reached by the service within 24 hours It raised the risk of the virus being transmitted to others should they be infected SAGE has warned at … Read more
Almost 90 per cent of Covid-19 patients don’t have any of the three main symptoms of the disease on the day they are tested, scientists have revealed. Researchers analysed data from 36,000 volunteers who were swabbed for the virus between the end of April, a month after lockdown began, and end of June. But just … Read more
Female surfer is dragged away by hazmat-wearing officials and arrested on Spanish beach after going in the sea while infected with Covid-19 The unnamed woman had worked as a lifeguard at the beach in San Sebastian Her colleagues were the ones to call the police after they saw her surfing She faces a fine of up … Read more
Nearly three-quarters of coronavirus-infected people have no symptoms on the day they are tested for the disease, government data has revealed. Only 28 per cent of people who tested positive for the disease in a random swabbing sample admitted to having any symptoms. The other 72 per cent were completely unaware they were carrying the … Read more
Border Farce! Coronavirus-infected passengers on the Ruby Princess were able to disembark after an official MISREAD their test results By Charlie Coë For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:15 BST, 30 July 2020 | Updated: 08:44 BST, 30 July 2020 Coronavirus-infected passengers on the Ruby Princess cruise ship were mistakenly allowed to disembark after Australian Border … Read more
A British man has been left paralysed after coronavirus triggered a rare condition that caused his body to attack his own nerves. The 57-year-old was rushed to A&E on April 13 after struggling to stand upright or move his arms, where a swab confirmed he was infected with Covid-19. By day three in hospital, his muscles … Read more
NHS Test and Trace is still failing to find a quarter of patients who test positive for coronavirus, shocking data revealed today. Of the 6,183 Covid-19 patients referred to the contact tracing programme between June 18 and June 24, just 4,639 were actually tracked down (75 per cent). A total of 1,383 people with the disease … Read more
Less than half of people referred to NHS Test and Trace after testing positive for coronavirus have given any details of their close contacts, data revealed today. Of the 20,968 people assigned to the England’s 25,000 contact tracers, only 10,058 have actually given information that the tracers could follow up (48 per cent). In its report … Read more
Re-engineering coronavirus patient’s ‘own’ immune cells to target and destroy virus-infected tissues could be the key to treating the disease, researchers say Researchers say the therapy involves extracting immune cells, called T lymphocytes, from a coronavirus patient’s blood stream Then receptors on the surface of the cells are engineered to recognize cells infected with the … Read more
Two married couples with coronavirus have now been reunited to see out their treatment and quarantines together in Nebraska, officials there said Tuesday. One person was transferred there earlier this week and a second was moved, from Travis Air Force Base in California, on Tuesday night, but no further details about their identities have been … Read more