Brazil‘s coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 on Monday, according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic. The figure, second only to the death toll in the United States, quadrupled in two months. Brazil passed the mark of 20,000 COVID-19 deaths on May 21. Recently, … Read more
‘Game-changing’ coronavirus antibody test that takes 20 minutes passes first trials with 98.6% accuracy Easy-to-read fingerprick tests were shown to be 98.6 per cent accurate The Oxford University developed AbC-19 tests will be distributed for free Large number of the tests were produced while waiting for regulatory approval By Helena Kelly For The Daily Mail … Read more
A family has suffered a double heartbreak after a daughter died in hospital on her 21st birthday just weeks before her mother, 47, passed away suddenly. Maria Gatt, a former residential home manager, died unexpectedly on July 4 – shortly after Gemma passed away on April 7. The family from New Waltham, Lincolnshire, are waiting … Read more
The failure to award World Cup winner Jack Charlton a knighthood before his death was last night branded an ‘absolute disgrace’. Pressure is now building for the much-loved former Leeds United defender and Republic of Ireland manager to be honoured posthumously. His death on Friday, aged 85, following a year-long fight with cancer, means another hero … Read more
Scottish comedian Johnny Beattie dies aged 93… as tributes pour in for the actor after six decades in the industry By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 19:30 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 19:30 BST, 9 July 2020 Johnny Beattie has died aged 93, it was revealed on Thursday. The Scottish comedian and actor passed … Read more
Scientists in the World Health Organisation have admitted there is ‘evidence emerging’ coronavirus can be spread just by air. The group has been told it should update guidance to warn this is now a possible route of transmission. It came on the same day the US said it would be stepping away from the organisation next … Read more
A New York cop knelt on a black man’s neck until he passed out as the victim’s distraught dad begged the officer to stop, fearing his son ‘was going to die just like George Floyd‘. Shocking footage surfaced on social media Monday of an unnamed officer kneeling on the neck of Yugeshwar Gaindarpersaud, 31, during an … Read more
It may look like a TIE Fighter in a galaxy far, far away, but a NASA image is the International Space Station in transit across our nearest star. A photographer captured the craft moving about five miles per second across the glowing sun at approximately 1:15pm ET in June 24 from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Joel Kowsky, … Read more
Campaigners mourned ‘the end of Hong Kong as we know it’ today after China passed a sweeping new national security law which critics say will smother the city’s freedoms. The legislation was unanimously approved by China’s rubber-stamp parliament, little more than six weeks after it was first unveiled. Though the wording of the law has … Read more
The global coronavirus death toll exceeded half a million on Sunday as the number of worldwide cases surpassed a staggering 10million, marking the most devastating and destructive pandemic in a century. On Sunday June 28 the global number of reported fatalities stood at 500,306 by 6pm EST and the global number of infections was reported … Read more