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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
MONDAY THE WARD IS FULL – BUT THE CASES JUST KEEP ON COMING I’m a junior doctor at a city centre hospital in the North of England, but right now I feel more like a firefighter. Every day brings life-or-death decisions here where I work, on a Covid ward for the elderly. At today’s morning … Read more
Footballers have been warned to stop hugging during goal celebrations and after matches and to observe social distancing on the pitch, in an attempt to slow the rapid spread of coronavirus in clubs. The edict comes after intense celebrations at high profile games, including a huge group hug among Manchester City ‘s players after they knocked … Read more
Just when we thought we were about to defeat Covid-19 by launching our Oxford vaccine, an alarming strain of the virus has emerged to strike fear into the ministers and experts fighting the pandemic. Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted yesterday that he is ‘incredibly worried’ about the fast-spreading mutant strain that has emerged in South … Read more
Current Covid vaccines could be reprogrammed to target new strains in just ‘a few days’, experts said today in a bid to calm fears about the South African variant. Top Government scientists have warned changes to the virus may mean the current wave of vaccines are less effective against it or don’t work at all. … Read more
The new mutant variant of ‘super’ coronavirus is indeed more infectious than previous variants, just as scientists feared, a new study finds. Imperial College London researchers found that the new variant that’s been wreaking havoc in the UK and arrived in the UK may be nearly 50 percent more transmissible, based on samples taken from … Read more
Super-COVID IS in the US: Colorado man in his 20s with NO travel history becomes first American to test positive for the mutant strain first detected in the UK Governor Jared Polis revealed the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 was found in Colorado Case was detected in a man in his 20s who is now ‘in isolation in … Read more
South Korea is the latest country to record its first cases of the new highly-infections UK variant of coronavirus brought in by three travellers from London. Officials have vowed to speed up the roll-out of a nation-wide coronavirus vaccination programme after detecting the new strain. The variant – thought to be more transmissible than others currently circulating – … Read more
Sweden and Spain have recorded their first cases of the new highly-infections UK variant of coronavirus despite a travel ban amid fears the countries’ case and death counts could soar. Madrid’s regional government announced today that four cases had been detected involving people who had recently arrived from the UK or had close contact with someone who … Read more
The highly infectious mutant strain of coronavirus found in Kent could be more likely to affect children, scientists have warned. Modellers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found the new virus strain is 56 per cent per cent more infectious. Even if another national lockdown was implemented, it would be ‘unlikely’ to … Read more