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Experts at Cambridge University say the number of people catching coronavirus each day has fallen by 17 per cent since the start of lockdown. The ‘Nowcast’ team, which works with Public Health England, estimates that there are now around 64,000 new coronavirus infections each day, down from 77,600 on November 3. They calculated that the … Read more
SAGE advisers’ estimates of how many people are catching Covid-19 each day actually went down at the end of October, despite Boris Johnson forcing the nation into another lockdown amid fears the virus was out of control. In a slide shown in the Prime Minister’s gloomy TV briefing, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance pointed … Read more
Coronavirus infections in England are still more than eight times below the devastating levels they reached in the spring and the country’s outbreak is growing slower than it did in the first wave, according to top scientists. Cambridge University researchers, whose estimates feed into No 10’s advisory panel SAGE, believe 47,000 people are currently catching … Read more
Individual dolphin whistles are recorded for the first time to help researchers estimate population sizes and track their movements Researchers placed four hydrophones along the Namibia coastline in 2016 They captured more than 4,000 hours of acoustic sounds including whistles They then listened for distinct differences to estimate the total population size Researchers heard 200 … Read more
COVID-19 could kill one in every 133 people it infects, suggesting almost six million people in the UK have had it already, according to scientists. Researchers collected information from 13 global studies that tried to calculate the true death rate of the coronavirus and settled on an overall estimate of 0.75 per cent. This would … Read more
A pair of scientists believe that up to 270,000 residents of California have the novel coronavirus, 10 times more cases than have been reported. The researchers estimate that up to 4.8 percent of the total US population was infected with the virus by April 6 – 40 times the number of confirmed cases. They also … Read more
This twenty IS plenty! New £20 note smashes its estimate and sells for £7,500 in Bank of England charity auction held behind closed doors The JMW Turner note AA01 000010 sells for double its estimate Bank of England charity auction held behind closed doors thanks to coronavirus The note had already reached £7,000 at pre-bidding … Read more