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Mixing Covid-19 jabs ‘can beat mutations’: Breakthrough as scientists suggest Oxford vaccine can be combined with Sputnik shot to offer enhanced coronavirus protection Mixing vaccines may boost the immune response and combat changing strains Trial results from yesterday show Sputnik is 92 per cent effective against Covid Only 16 of 16,500 people given it had … Read more
From ‘All by myself’ to ‘Happy’, songs we decide to listen to often reflect our mood. Now Spotify thinks it can make that decision for us – by listening to our voices. The streaming giant has been granted a patent for a technology that analyses your voice to determine your emotional state, age, gender and … Read more
‘It’s a nonsense now if football is ever suggested to be stopped’: Gary Neville insists the season MUST continue amid tighter Covid restrictions and praises Premier League for safe return after first lockdown Premier League was put on hold between March and June during first lockdown Chelsea played West Ham on Monday night with London … Read more
Sofia Richie appears to suggest she and Scott Disick ‘outgrew’ each other in series of cryptic social media posts By Sarah Abraham For Dailymail.com Published: 18:26 GMT, 12 December 2020 | Updated: 18:26 GMT, 12 December 2020 Sofia Richie is suggesting she and Scott Disick ‘outgrew’ each other. The 22-year-old model and the 37-year-old Keeping … Read more
Half of the bridges on our roads are in a ‘poor’ condition, official figures suggest Almost half of England’s motorway bridges are in a poor or very poor condition Some 858 bridges have at least one crucial section in a ‘very poor condition’ Highways England insisted a ‘poor’ rating does not mean a bridge is … Read more
China’s ‘bat woman’ reveals new tests which suggest coronavirus did NOT originate at her Wuhan lab Shi Zhengli retested blood samples taken in 2012 from miners who became ill Four men caught respiratory disease after clearing bat faeces from copper mine Virologist found none of them were infected with Covid-19 when they were sick By … Read more
Charts show that England’s local lockdowns are bringing down coronavirus cases in badly affected areas and the country’s R rate could be as low as one, meaning the outbreak may have stopped growing. On the eve of the country’s second national shutdown, on which MPs will vote later today, official data shows that measures already … Read more
Ministers today suggested Nicola Sturgeon will not get powers to pay 80 per cent furlough to Scots after lockdown ends in England – despite Boris Johnson hinting she would yesterday. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it would be down to the Treasury whether the coronavirus support package continued after December 2. The comments tee up … Read more
Scientists have developed a low-cost ‘smart tablecloth’ that can suggest recipes for dinner by identifying ingredients placed on top of it. When hooked up to a smart speaker like Amazon Echo, the ‘Capacitivo’ tablecloth, which is layered with diamond-shaped electrodes, can relay recipe steps to the user. The technology, which has been developed by Microsoft … Read more
More proof England’s Covid-19 outbreak is slowing down? ONS estimates 35,200 people got infected every day last week – a rise of 26% in a week (but the speed of growth has slowed again) Office for National Statistics data is based on random swab testing of the population across England Its estimates last week were … Read more