California Gov Gavin Newsom announces stay-home order for regions where ICU capacity falls below 15%

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a new stay-at-home order in parts of the state where hospitals below 15 percent available ICU capacity.   The new order divides the state into five regions – none of which currently meet the threshold for the new restrictions.  However Newsom said four out of five regions – Greater … Read more

‘Megalabs’ will double Britain’s Covid testing capacity to more than a million a day by 2021

Tens of millions of British-made Covid-19 vaccines could be rolled out by December, it has been claimed.   Leader of the Oxford University and AstraZeneca-backed trial, Professor Andrew Pollard, says the team is ‘optimistic’ about getting the go-ahead for the ‘miracle’ vaccine by Christmas time. The academic says their anti-viral would be ten times cheaper than Pfizer’s … Read more

‘Megalabs’ will double Britain’s Covid testing capacity to more than a million a day by 2021

Tens of millions of British-made Covid-19 vaccines could be rolled out by December, it has been claimed.   Leader of the Oxford University and AstraZeneca-backed trial, Professor Andrew Pollard, says the team is ‘optimistic’ about getting the go-ahead for the ‘miracle’ vaccine by Christmas time. The academic says their anti-viral would be ten times cheaper than Pfizer’s … Read more

Our primate ancestors developed capacity for language, scientists say 

How apes ‘talked’ 40m years ago: Our primate ancestors developed capacity for language, scientists say Arrival of Homo Sapiens was believed to be when language started taking shape  New research suggests our ancient ancestors developed capacity for language  Researchers at universities of Warwick and Zurich examined how chimpanzees, monkeys and humans processed tones in a … Read more

Liverpool’s biggest hospitals are 10% closer to capacity than they normally are in October

Liverpool’s biggest hospitals are only 10 per cent closer to capacity than normal for October, official data has revealed. The city’s NHS critical care beds are usually 85 per cent full at this time of year, with 51 out of 60 beds occupied across three hospitals, according to NHS England data from the past six … Read more

Liverpool’s biggest hospitals are 10% closer to capacity than they normally are in October

Liverpool’s biggest hospitals are only 10 per cent closer to capacity than normal for October, official data has revealed. The city’s NHS critical care beds are usually 85 per cent full at this time of year, with 51 out of 60 beds occupied across three hospitals, according to NHS England data from the past six … Read more

Liverpool’s intensive care wards at 95% capacity, with patient numbers set to rise above first peak

Liverpool’s intensive care wards are at 95% capacity and medics expect patient numbers to surge past those seen in the pandemic’s first wave ‘in ten days’, councillor warns Covid-19 patients in Liverpool hospitals could surpass first peak in next 10 days  Councillor says there are 277 confirmed cases in hospitals around the city  The first … Read more

Easyjet appoints new finance chief as it expects major capacity drop

Easyjet nabs new finance chief from Tui as it warns capacity for autumn to be less than 40% of planned levels Easyjet chairman John Barton described Kenton Jarvis as a man of ‘high calibre’   Jarvis was formerly finance director at the defunct travel firm Airtours Holidays  CEO Johan Lundgren has called for a winter furlough … Read more

Demand for Covid checks ‘is up to FOUR TIMES the system’s capacity’

The Government’s coronavirus testing tsar sparked outrage today after she claimed nobody was ‘expecting’ to see the ‘really sizeable increase in demand’ for checks in recent weeks despite the return of schools and more people heading back to work.  Baroness Harding, the head of the NHS Test and Trace programme, told MPs that ‘none of … Read more

Demand for Covid checks ‘is up to FOUR TIMES the system’s capacity’

The Government’s coronavirus testing tsar sparked outrage today after she claimed nobody was ‘expecting’ to see the ‘really sizeable increase in demand’ for checks in recent weeks despite the return of schools and more people heading back to work.  Baroness Harding, the head of the NHS Test and Trace programme, told MPs that ‘none of … Read more