The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the US must immediately develop a testing strategy to find and isolate symptom-free coronavirus cases. In a tweet on Wednesday, Dr Robert Redfield described a meeting he and Dr Deborah Birx, another member of the White House coronavirus task force, had with Utah … Read more
More than 100,000 new coronavirus infections were recorded in a single day for very first the first time in the United States on Wednesday. The milestone figure was passed as the country waited learn the result of the presidential election carried out while the pandemic has been raging. Health officials say that the steady increase … Read more
More than 100,000 new coronavirus infections were recorded in a single day for very first the first time in the United States on Wednesday. The milestone figure was passed as the country waited learn the result of the presidential election carried out while the pandemic has been raging. Health officials say that the steady increase … Read more
AT A GLANCE: HOW VALLANCE AND WHITTY DEFENDED THE LOCKDOWN SATURDAY’S GLOOMY SLIDES The pair admitted what one MP called the ‘avalanche of data’ they presented in Saturday’s briefing may have been too much to handle for the public. Sir Patrick said: ‘I would always like to get things simpler than they were and clearer … Read more
AT A GLANCE: HOW VALLANCE AND WHITTY DEFENDED THE LOCKDOWN SATURDAY’S GLOOMY SLIDES The pair admitted what one MP called the ‘avalanche of data’ they presented in Saturday’s briefing may have been too much to handle for the public. Sir Patrick said: ‘I would always like to get things simpler than they were and clearer … Read more
SAGE advisers’ estimates of how many people are catching Covid-19 each day actually went down at the end of October, despite Boris Johnson forcing the nation into another lockdown amid fears the virus was out of control. In a slide shown in the Prime Minister’s gloomy TV briefing, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance pointed … Read more
Britain today recorded the fewest daily Covid-19 cases in a fortnight, offering more proof that the crisis is slowing down and isn’t spiralling out of control ahead of England’s national lockdown on Thursday. Department of Health figures show another 18,950 people tested positive for the disease — down 9.3 per cent in a week and … Read more
The Government claims to have met Boris Johnson’s target of being able to process 500,000 coronavirus tests per day by the end of October. In data published today, UK officials reported the country had the capacity to carry out 519,770 swab tests on November 1 for the virus. But over the course of the week, only … Read more
A mutated strain of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes Covid-19 may be more infectious than the original version. A study of more than 5,000 Covid-19 patients at a hospital in Houston, Texas, revealed that 99.9 per cent of infections were caused by this altered version of the virus, called D614G. The finding adds credence to … Read more
SAGE advisers’ estimates of how many people are catching Covid-19 each day actually went down at the end of October, despite Boris Johnson forcing the nation into another lockdown amid fears the virus was out of control. In a slide shown in the Prime Minister’s gloomy TV briefing, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance pointed … Read more