Coronavirus: UK narrows search for missing Brazil variant case to South East

Search for England’s missing Brazil coronavirus variant case has NARROWED to 379 households in the South East, Matt Hancock reveals Officials have identified the batch of home test kits the person’s swab came from Their positive test was done on February 12 or 13 and they never got the result It now turns out they … Read more

Coronavirus: UK narrows search for missing Brazil variant case to South East

England’s missing case of the Brazilian coronavirus variant was someone from one of 379 households in the South East who took a home swab test in mid-February, Matt Hancock said today. The Health Secretary said the Department of Health is getting closer to finding the mysterious person who tested positive but didn’t give their contact … Read more

Alessandra Ambrosio is the image of a cool mom as she rocks a floral jumpsuit to lunch with the kids

Alessandra Ambrosio looks like the definition of a cool mom as she rocks a floral jumpsuit to lunch with the kids By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 03:20 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 03:20 GMT, 2 March 2021 Alessandra Ambrosio and her two children returned home to Los Angeles just days ago after an … Read more

Houston is the first US city to find EVERY ‘super-covid’ variant

Houston, Texas, is the first city in the US to identify all of the major coronavirus variants spreading in the US, according to a soon-to-be-posted pre-print.  Meanwhile, scientists in Florida identified the state’s first case of the South African variant over the weekend, meaning it has all three of the imported variants.  Florida already had … Read more

‘Schools WILL reopen on March 8’: No10 refuses to delay restart despite Brazilian Covid fears

Downing Street confirmed today that schools will reopen on Monday, despite fears over a Brazilian strain of coronavirus that has been found in Britain. Six cases of the P.1 variant first detected in the Amazonian city of Manaus have been confirmed in the UK – three in England and three in Scotland. Two were tracked to … Read more

Daily Covid cases almost HALVE in a week to lowest level since September

Daily infections have almost halved in a week to the lowest levels since September, today’s figures show as Britain’s Covid outbreak continues to shrink rapidly. Deaths have also plunged by 42 per cent, according to the Government’s own data that will pile more pressure on Boris Johnson to consider easing draconian lockdown restrictions sooner.  Department of … Read more

Daily Covid cases almost HALVE in a week to lowest level since September

Britain’s Covid outbreak is continuing to shrink rapidly, with daily infections having almost halved in a week to the lowest levels since September. Deaths have also plunged by 42 per cent, according to the Government’s own figures that will pile more pressure on Boris Johnson to consider easing draconian lockdown restrictions sooner.  Department of Health … Read more

Ministers plead for MISSING Brazil variant patient to come forward

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE BRAZIL VARIANT?  Name: B.1.1.248 or P.1 Date: Discovered in Tokyo, Japan, in four travellers arriving from Manaus, Brazil, on January 2.  Why should we care? The variant has the same spike protein mutation as the highly transmissible versions found in Kent and South Africa – named N501Y – which makes the … Read more

Ministers plead for MISSING Brazil variant patient to come forward

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE BRAZIL VARIANT?  Name: B.1.1.248 or P.1 Date: Discovered in Tokyo, Japan, in four travellers arriving from Manaus, Brazil, on January 2.  Why should we care? The variant has the same spike protein mutation as the highly transmissible versions found in Kent and South Africa – named N501Y – which makes the … Read more

First cases of Manaus variant of Covid from Brazil is found in UK

First cases of Manaus variant of Covid from Brazil is found in UK: Mutant strain may spread quicker and respond less well to vaccines By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 17:05 GMT, 28 February 2021 | Updated: 17:14 GMT, 28 February 2021 Six cases of the Manaus variant of coronavirus from Brazil have been found in … Read more