Cambridge University academics whose gloomy warnings of 4,000 deaths a day spooked ministers into imposing England’s second lockdown have dropped their estimate again. The ‘Nowcast’ team, which feeds into Number 10’s advisory panel SAGE, estimates there will be between 380 and 610 coronavirus deaths on November 21, based on current trends. For reference, the academics … Read more
The Government claims to have met Boris Johnson‘s target of being able to process 500,000 coronavirus tests per day by the end of October. In data published today, UK officials reported the country had the capacity to carry out 519,770 swab tests on November 1 for the virus. But over the course of the week, only … Read more
Coronavirus infections in England are still more than eight times below the devastating levels they reached in the spring and the country’s outbreak is growing slower than it did in the first wave, according to top scientists. Cambridge University researchers, whose estimates feed into No 10‘s advisory panel SAGE, believe 47,000 people are currently catching … Read more
Individual dolphin whistles are recorded for the first time to help researchers estimate population sizes and track their movements Researchers placed four hydrophones along the Namibia coastline in 2016 They captured more than 4,000 hours of acoustic sounds including whistles They then listened for distinct differences to estimate the total population size Researchers heard 200 … Read more
COVID-19 could kill one in every 133 people it infects, suggesting almost six million people in the UK have had it already, according to scientists. Researchers collected information from 13 global studies that tried to calculate the true death rate of the coronavirus and settled on an overall estimate of 0.75 per cent. This would … Read more
A pair of scientists believe that up to 270,000 residents of California have the novel coronavirus, 10 times more cases than have been reported. The researchers estimate that up to 4.8 percent of the total US population was infected with the virus by April 6 – 40 times the number of confirmed cases. They also … Read more