Even vaccinating 100 percent of the population may not be enough to eradicate COVID-19 once ‘super-covid’ variants become dominant in the US, a new study suggests. Because the more infectious variant means each new case leads to a greater number of cases, vaccines – even the most effective ones – may not be able to … Read more
A tiny Cornish seaside village is to host world leaders in the first in-person meeting of the G7 in almost two years in June. For Boris Johnson‘s first major summit in the UK, he has picked Carbis Bay in Britain’s most southerly county for the gathering, where he hopes to unite leaders on a message of … Read more
UK records first fall in non-UK born and non-British populations in at least a decade following the impact of Brexit and the coronavirus crisis Office for National Statistics published data on UK population by country of birth It showed that the non-UK-born and non-British population have both decreased Fall has been largely attributed to a … Read more
The United Arab Emirates is racing to vaccinate half of its citizens by April as it battles a dramatic surge in Covid cases since the turn of the year. The Arab nation, comprising the holiday hotspot of Dubai where British influencers have been flocking in recent weeks to take advantage of lax lockdown rules, has … Read more
Butterflies are without a doubt one of the most beautiful insects in the UK, but a worrying new study has found that their numbers are dwindling. The research reveals that the UK butterfly population has been cut in half over the past 45 years. Worryingly, almost one in ten British butterfly species has become extinct … Read more
Israel has vaccinated more than 20 percent of its population against COVID-19, leaving the rest of the world – including the US and the UK – in its dust. The small nation has deployed its military to help run mass vaccination sites 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a result, it has … Read more
Fern Britton asked her fans if COVID-19 was a ‘con to control the population’ in a Twitter debate on Sunday. The presenter, 64, said she believes that ‘COVID is a real and dangerous virus’ as she encouraged her followers to share pandemic conspiracy theories, days before England went into a third national lockdown amid spiralling … Read more
FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more
FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more
British author Michael Rosen, who spent 47 days in intensive care with Covid, has written a scathing new poem slamming the government’s response to the pandemic. The former children’s laureate, 74, who was left with a myriad of health problems following his recovery from the virus, accuses the Government and media of ‘dispensing with a whole … Read more