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Around 65,000 people in England are catching Covid-19 each day but the outbreak is no longer shrinking, according to analysts tracking the second wave. London-based Lane Clark and Peacock (LCP) – a consultancy firm that uses official data to estimate daily infections across the country – predicted that daily cases plunged to 62,552 on January … Read more
A website built by the University of Cambridge has been created to reveal the risk of infection from coronavirus in indoor spaces. The app has various customisable settings which include level of ventilation, number of occupants and the level of activity and mask wearing. Anyone can use it to find out the level of risk … Read more
A fifth of all critical care units in England were full last week, NHS figures show as the number of Covid patients in hospital continued to spiral. Some 27 of 140 major NHS trusts had no space on the specialist wards, designed to care for the most seriously ill patients who need constant monitoring, on … Read more
Coronavirus outbreaks are spiralling fastest in former Tier One areas and the North of England, official data has revealed. Of the ten councils registering the biggest surges in Covid infections in the most recent fortnight, eight were in the North of England — including three in Cumbria and three in Liverpool. The remaining two were … Read more
Scientists have developed a new interactive map that shows how many coronavirus patients are in hospitals in every county of the US. The COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project tells Americans how many people diagnosed with COVID-19 are filling up inpatient beds and how many are in ICUs. Users can also access a list in which every … Read more
Over half of Britons say they’re baffled by current Covid travel rules – luckily there’s an interactive world map that breaks them down country by country The continuously updated map allows users to click a country and see the latest regulations that apply there A panel shows the entry requirements, any quarantine requirements and the … Read more
Over half of Britons say they’re baffled by current Covid travel rules – luckily there’s an interactive world map that breaks them down country by country The continuously updated map allows users to click a country and see the latest regulations that apply there A panel shows the entry requirements, any quarantine requirements and the … 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
Scientists have developed a new interactive map that shows the risk of contracting coronavirus anywhere in the US in real-time. The COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool tells Americans their odds of encountering at least one person with the virus in every county at an event with a crowd size ranging from 10 people to … Read more
Britons can now know for sure what Covid-19 restrictions are in their area with the help of an interactive tool released by the Government. The tool was released on the Gov.uk website after Boris Johnson announced his new ‘traffic light’ alert system on Monday. Users enter their postcodes and are then told whether the alert … Read more