Covid kills a FIFTH of all cancer patients – with lung and blood cancer sufferers the most at risk Research looked at 15 studies from across the globe involving 3,019 patients Analysis of the data revealed patients with cancer face a 22.4% mortality rate This is 273 times higher than the mortality rate for all … Read more
Charlie Hunnam made a remote appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday evening to promote his latest project Jungleland. And during the interview, the 40-year-old actor discussed contracting COVID-19 ‘very early on’ in the pandemic and how his experience with the virus was not particularly severe. Hunnam also revealed that he is currently experiencing ‘a little … Read more
A councillor who claims that Covid-19 is a ‘fake virus’ which does not exist has compared life under lockdown restrictions to ‘living in North Korea‘. Irene Hewitson, an Independent member of Great Aycliffe Town Council in Co Durham, said she will believe that coronavirus exists ‘when my neighbours, relatives, friends and work people are dying around … Read more
Covid outbreak at Cranswick meat plant as 144 staff catch virus – just days after 75 workers test positive at nearby Bernard Matthews factory Norfolk County Council said there had been a ‘significant outbreak’ of Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak has hit Cranswick Country Foods site in Watton, Norfolk 300 members of staff at the factory have … Read more
Sooty puppeteer Matthew Corbett first experienced symptoms of Covid-19 when he popped down to the cellar to fetch a bottle of wine on his birthday. As he came up the stairs on March 28, just days after the start of lockdown, the 72-year-old started to sweat, feel dizzy and was suddenly convinced there was a … Read more
China has screened an entire region in Xinjiang for the coronavirus after authorities found a single new case in a local outbreak. Health authorities reported the first infection on Saturday, a 17-year-old female garment factory worker in Xinjiang’s north-western region Kashgar, home to ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims. Another 137 symptomless patients were found yesterday after the local … Read more
President Donald Trump kept up his full-bore cross-country campaign swing with a Sunday trip to New Hampshire where he mocked social distancing guidelines even as the White House battled a coronavirus outbreak on Mike Pence’s staff. Just minutes into his speech, Trump began tearing into ‘sleepy Joe’ Biden, who he ridiculed for calling an early … Read more
Children who test positive for COVID-19 but show none of the outward signs may have lower viral levels than the infected and symptomatic kids, a study suggested. Alternatively, experts said, the findings could be the result of the children being tested later in their disease — when their viral loads had fallen. The US research … Read more
North Koreans are warned to stay indoors over fears ‘yellow dust cloud from China’ could infect the population with Covid-19 Kim Jong-un’s regime is urging people to stay inside and keep windows closed Stay-at-home message has also been passed to foreign diplomats in Pyongyang The secretive kingdom claims it has never had a single case … Read more
Analysing SEWAGE for traces of coronavirus is helping UK officials track the spread of the disease in areas with limited testing Programme was set up to provide an early warning system of escalating cases This is because it takes days for symptoms to appear and tests to be completed And today DEFRA said it had … Read more