Blow to Operation Moonshot as Liverpool officials abandon rapid test at the 11th hour after trial found it failed to detect more than HALF of infected cases The 20-minutes test planned to form part of ‘Operation Moonshot’ programme Trials have been scaled back due to accuracy concerned of the OptiGene test Scientists found high proportion … Read more
Chaos in Liverpool as rapid Covid-19 test officials hoped to use in mass-swabbing scheme starting today doesn’t work and officials abandon it at the 11th hour The 20-minutes test planned to form part of ‘Operation Moonshot’ programme Trials have been scaled back due to accuracy concerned of the OptiGene test Scientists found high proportion of … Read more
Ryanair says that 91 per cent of its customers rate it as either ‘excellent’, ‘very good’ or ‘good’ MailOnline’s etiquette expert William Hanson said Ryanair is ‘joyless’ But the carrier’s October ‘Rate My Flight’ poll yielded largely positive results Ryanair revealed that 97 per cent of its October flights arrived on time By Ted Thornhill, … Read more
Pennsylvania is being watched especially closely as the fate of the presidency could come down to the state. But Governor Tom Wolf said ‘we may not know the results today’, tweeting there are more than a million ballots still to be counted amid claims it could take until Friday. Edison Research published by The New … Read more
The price of pink diamonds is expected to soar after the Argyle Diamond Mine which produced nearly the entire world supply closes this week. The world’s largest pink diamond mine began when a group of geologists stumbled across a stone in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the 1970s. Since owner Rio Tinto began … Read more
The price of pink diamonds is expected to soar after the Argyle Diamond Mine which produced nearly the entire world supply closes this week. The world’s largest pink diamond mine began when a group of geologists stumbled across a stone in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the 1970s. Since owner Rio Tinto began … Read more
Hospital admissions for Covid-19 patients surged by 33 per cent in just seven days, official data reveals. The biggest spike was recorded in the South of England, amid warnings the spread of infections is gathering steam in the region. Admissions jumped by 53 per cent in the South East. There were 6,661 infected patients sent … Read more
A health alert has been issued over some reusable facemasks with evidence that some filter out just 7per cent of harmful bacteria. The warning comes from consumer experts at Which? after a survey of 15 masks which suggest some offer little or no protection. Three of the masks, available online and in the high street, … Read more
Is YOUR mask safe? New research shows some stop just seven per cent of bacteria amid ‘alarming’ variations between best and worst face coverings (and reveals why you should wash yours) Which? tests highlighted differences among the face masks currently available Masks available from Asda, John Lewis, Boots, Ocado and Asos were tested Researchers studied … Read more
Manual labourers — such as brick layers, road diggers and factory workers — have a 55 per cent higher risk of developing dementia than office works, a study found. Researchers from Denmark found that physical work wears down the brain — as well as the heart, muscles and joints — because it’s the ‘wrong sort’ … Read more