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Three boroughs in and around London have become the UK’s Covid hot-spots for infection rates – with as many as 1 in 15 people having had the virus in one area alone. London’s Barking and Dagenham, the neighbouring borough of Redbridge, and the commuter area of Thurrock, in Essex, are all in the grips of … Read more
One in 30 Londoners had Covid-19 last week, according to ‘frightening’ new estimates. Roughly 1.1 million people in private households in England – the equivalent of around 2.06% of the population, or one in 50 people – had coronavirus between December 27 and January 2, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Meanwhile one in … Read more
About 14 percent of the U.S. population may already have antibodies against the novel coronavirus and could safely wait to get a vaccine, a new study finds. Researchers from Pfizer Vaccines looked at antibody test surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last year. They determined the nearly 47 million Americans … Read more
Coronavirus cases in England spike back up to pre-lockdown levels with 646,000 people infected last week, mass testing shows By Connor Boyd Assistant Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 10:01 GMT, 24 December 2020 | Updated: 10:05 GMT, 24 December 2020 Advertisement The number of people with coronavirus in England last week spiked to pre-second lockdown … Read more
DVLA announces 352 workers have been infected by Covid outbreak at its Swansea offices The DVLA has declared a coronavirus outbreak at its Swansea offices There have been 352 cases of Covid-19 at the contact centre since September Local health board has set up a testing facility to limit spread into community By William Cole For Mailonline … Read more
Santa gives Belgian care home Covid-19: 75 people are infected after ‘superspreader’ dressed as Father Christmas visited residents Santa was welcomed into care home of 150 residents in town of Mol, Antwerp Three days after he tested positive for Covid-19, sparking fears at the care home Since then 61 elderly and 14 staff have tested positive. … Read more
It started with a text message. ‘Please pick-up. Very important’. It was a Tuesday afternoon in late October, and I’d been working with my phone on silent – I hadn’t noticed the four missed calls from my ex-partner, Matt. My stomach lurched. Matt had been looking after our four-year-old son, Milo for the past few days. … Read more
BBC Radio 3 is accused of becoming ‘infected by relentless wokeness’ by Tory peer Lord Moylan who’s listened to classic station for nearly 50 years Lord Daniel Moylan said the station was ‘infected by sort of relentless wokeness’ Comment came during House of Lords discussion on public broadcasters Government has previously been accused of seeking … Read more
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease. It is caused by a group of bacteria within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (a related “family” of species). TB can affect nearly all warm-blooded mammals, including farm animals, wildlife, pets and humans. TB can infect any part of the body, but most commonly occurs in the lungs (pulmonary … Read more
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