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Covid vaccine manufacturer Pfizer is shrinking and delaying its deliveries to Europe while it expands its factory in Belgium. The company makes one of just two vaccines that are being given to the public in the UK and confirmed that Britain would be affected in late January and February. Concerns about vaccine deliveries in the … Read more
Joe Biden’s lead in Arizona has fallen below 20,000. Biden currently remains ahead by 20, 573, votes, with a 49.5% hold of the total vote, compared to Trump’s 48.9%. Biden is leading in every other state. He is likely to be called the winner there soon with the remaining votes coming from Allegheny County, which includes … Read more
Pennsylvania still has hundreds of thousands of votes left to count despite the secretary of state saying results could be returned on Thursday as Joe Biden closes the gap and President Donald Trump loses a legal bid to stop ballot counting in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is among a handful of battleground states Trump and Biden are … Read more
Little finger: Cadbury shrinks the size of its selection box Fudge bars by 12% ‘to tackle obesity’ (but WON’T say if the price is coming down too) Cadbury has shrunk the size of its selection box Fudge bars by 12 per cent Owner Mondelez of the organisation said bars would now be 22g instead of … Read more
Democrats went into Tuesday night expecting to pad their majority in the House, but instead Republicans were able to unseat several incumbents and close the gap. Both parties’ assumption going into Election Day was that Democrats would be able to snatch at least a dozen more seats from GOP incumbents, adding to their majority in … Read more
Seven new coronavirus hotspots in the north of England and Wales have been flagged up today by a Covid-19 symptom-tracking app that uses data from more than three million people. King’s College London researchers highlighted South Tyneside, Oldham, Redcar & Cleveland, Wirral, Bradford, Barnsley and Denbighshire as potential areas of concern. This adds to Blackpool, Halton … Read more
England’s coronavirus outbreak has slowed down for a third week in a row with official statistics estimating there are now just 2,200 new cases per day. Some 28,200 people in England are thought to be infected at any one time – 0.05 per cent of the population or one in every 1,900 people. This total, … Read more
England’s coronavirus outbreak appears to have shrunk by half in the past week, official data has revealed. The Office for National Statistics predicts that there are now only 53,000 people in England who currently have Covid-19 – 0.1 per cent of the population. This estimate is a significant drop from the 133,000 people (0.24 per … Read more
Harvard team shrinks cockroach-inspired robot to the size of a PENNY making it one of the smallest and fastest micro bots ever made The bot is only 2.25 centimeters and can travel at 14 body lengths per second It is one of the smallest and fastest micro bots every made The bot was partly a test … Read more
China’s economy shrinks 6.8pc in first three months of 2020 – the first quarterly contraction since 1976 By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 17 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 17 April 2020 China’s economy shrank 6.8 per cent in the first three months of 2020 – the first quarterly contraction … Read more