UK Covid deaths fall again: Preliminary data shows virus claimed the lives of 41 hospital patients in last 24 hours – including healthy 37-year-old 35 people died in hospitals in England alone, while 6 people died in Wales 41 hospital deaths in England and Wales is down from 61 reported last Sunday Scotland reported no … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing a Tory revolt over the speed of his lockdown exit strategy as angry MPs said the Government’s approach seemed to be based on ‘dates, not data’. The Conservative rebels pointed to the fact that more than 26million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine … Read more
The success of the Covid jabs were highlighted again tonight as officials unveiled fresh data confirming they reduce deaths in the elderly by 85 per cent. Public Health England’s vaccine chief Dr Mary Ramsay told tonight’s Downing Street conference that ‘every day we vaccinate more people, we prevent more deaths’. She unveiled a raft of … Read more
More than a THIRD of people in England now have Covid antibodies as official data shows 75% of over-80s now have some immunity against the disease because of vaccine roll-out Office for National Statistics data up to March 3 show 34.6% of people in England have Covid antibodies The proportion has jumped 77 per cent … Read more
Long-awaited results from AstraZeneca Plc’s U.S coronavirus vaccine trial are currently being reviewed by independent advisors to determine whether the shot is safe and effective. Dr Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said the drug company and its partner, the University of Oxford, completed enrollment of 30,000 participants earlier this year. … Read more
Not a single coronavirus case has been reported on the Isles of Scilly during the UK’s second wave and nobody has ever died of Covid there, official records show. The virus-free island off the coast of Cornwall has been kept under the same lockdown rules as the rest of England during that time, but official … Read more
Exports crash as Brexit red tape kicks in: Trade with Germany slumped in the month after transition period ended, data shows German imports from the UK fell 56 per cent in the first full month after Brexit This compares to just a 13.9 per cent fall in imports from other non-EU states France also reported … Read more
Americans who are overweight or obese make up more than 73 percent of those who die of the virus, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. People who were obese made up nearly half of all fatalities among hospitalized coronavirus patients logged in the new report. Those figures align with the overall … Read more
Coronavirus cases and deaths are continuing to plummet across the United States with some of the lowest daily figures recorded in months. On Sunday, a total of 40,340 new infections were reported, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which is a 28 percent decline from the 56,044 cases recorded just two weeks ago. This is … Read more
Police investigating the cause of Tiger Woods‘ car crash have retrieved the ‘black box’ from the golf stars’ SUV, officials said on Tuesday. Investigators hope that the on-board data recorded will give them insight into the cause of the rollover on February 23 that left Woods in hospital, such as the speed of vehicle car … Read more