Sweden heads for coronavirus third wave after infections rose 10% third week in a row

Sweden is heading for a coronavirus third wave and will need tighter restrictions after infections rose 10% for third week in a row, health chief Anders Tegnell warns Anders Tegnell said third Swedish coronavirus wave is inevitable if rules ignored Number of new cases have risen by ten per cent in each of the last … Read more

Clear Leisure and Catenae Innovation ride the digital wave

A company’s share price does not normally rise after it places shares at a discount – quite the reverse – but Clear Leisure has pulled off this rare trick. Less than two weeks after raising £680,000 by placing shares at 0.6p each the investment company raised a further £1million by placing shares at a penny … Read more

French vaccination drive ‘too slow to prevent third wave’

The pace of France’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is too slow to prevent new lockdown measures being needed to halt a third wave of hospitalisations, top scientists say.   Experts at the prestigious Institut Pasteur say the current pace of around 100,000 jabs a day is ‘insufficient’ to rein in the effects of the highly contagious UK … Read more

Covid Germany: Merkel warns of third wave of infections that could trigger ANOTHER lockdown

German Chancellor Angela Merkel last night warned that new Covid variants risk a third wave of infections sweeping across the country which could provoke another national lockdown. Coronavirus cases have started to increase again in Germany with only four per cent of the public vaccinated, while Britons are already counting down the days to freedom … Read more

Merkel admits -‘We are in coronavirus third wave’: Germany urges population to take AstraZeneca jab

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is now in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, two sources told Reuters news agency. ‘We are now in the third wave,’ Merkel told lawmakers in her conservative party on Wednesday, according to two sources who attended the meeting. The chancellor is also said to have warned … Read more

How Britain’s second wave of Covid has drastically changed

Covid cases spread rapidly across the country after high levels were first seen in the South East in December, a series of fascinating maps show.  Data released by Public Health England and the Office for National Statistics shows how the virus spread around the UK in the second waves of the virus. The most recent … Read more

Boris Johnson admits coronavirus cases, hospital admissions and deaths WILL go up in UK’s third wave

Boris Johnson today said Britain must stomach the fact that more people will die when lockdown ends because vaccines are not perfect. The Prime Minister argued there was ‘no credible route’ to a zero Covid world in the long term and that a third wave would happen whenever restrictions are lifted. Laying out his ‘one-way’ … Read more

Kate Garraway gives a big wave while heading to work

Kate Garraway continued to put on a brave face on Monday, amid her husband Derek Draper’s coronavirus battle.  The Good Morning Britain presenter, 53, gave a big wave as she headed inside the Global Radio Studios in London on Monday ahead of her Smooth Radio show.  She looked incredible wearing a yellow sweater which she … Read more

Covid UK: Quarantine captives wave and pose for photos near Heathrow

All smiles at the quarantine inn! Captives wave and pose for photos in bath towels, colourful leggings and waving football shirts on day five of compulsory ten-day isolation spell Arrivals currently staying at the Radisson Blue Edwardian Hotel, near Heathrow Travellers from ‘red list’ countries spotted at windows appeared in good spirits It comes amid … Read more

Covid hospitalisations HALVE since January as cases fall to pre-second wave levels

NHS hospitals are now treating FEWER Covid patients than they were during darkest days of outbreak last Spring as statistics show hospitalisations have halved since January There were 20,156 Covid patients in hospital compared to 39,242 in January Those on ventilation beds plunged from 4,077 in January to 2,614 on Wednesday Data shows Covid cases plummeted … Read more