The scientist whose Covid-tracking app established that loss of smell is a key symptom has said that 80 per cent of people who enter intensive care units with coronavirus are obese and are more likely to die. King’s College London epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector, 62, said he suffered very mild Covid while he was developing … Read more
Britain today confirmed 12,718 new coronavirus cases and 738 deaths amid signs that the country’s outbreak may have stopped shrinking, with a symptom-tracking study suggesting infections are now rising in parts of the UK. ZOE and King’s College app suggests the number of people reporting symptoms of Covid has started rising again in Scotland and … Read more
Covid symptoms appears to be on the rise in Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of England, raising fears that Britain’s outbreak has stopped shrinking. Scientists behind a symptom tracking app have spotted cases are ‘starting to trend up again’ and called it a ‘hitch’ after lockdown prompted rates to drop for five weeks straight. Figures show … Read more
Coronavirus cases will tumble to a total of 85,000 symptomatic infections on the day schools are set to unbolt their gates, a symptom-tracking app has predicted, with daily cases plummeting to levels not seen since last June. The ZOE Covid-19 Symptom Study said there will be 3,373 cases a day by March 8 – the … Read more
More hope that Britain’s Covid outbreak is on the way out: Symptom-tracking app says cases dropped 23% last week with 54,000 new infections each day By Luke Andrews For Mailonline Published: 11:22 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 11:41 GMT, 15 January 2021 An app monitoring the spread of coronavirus in the UK says cases … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus outbreak may be growing following a spike in the number of people with symptoms over the past week, data suggests. King’s College London‘s COVID Symptom Tracker app estimates 2,100 people are catching the virus in the community every day — up from 1,400 last week. The increase is too small to say definitively that the … Read more