Trump threatens to KISS supporters now that he’s ‘immune’ from COVID-19

President Donald Trump called the coronavirus pandemic a ‘lovefest’ and proclaimed that he was newly ‘immune,’ threatening to kiss members of his Florida rally crowd.   ‘One thing with me, the nice part: I went through it, now they say I’m immune,’ Trump said Monday night at the Orlando Sanford International Airport. ‘I feel so powerful, I’ll … Read more

Forget the R rate, it’s the Covid-19 clusters we need to stop

During the coronavirus pandemic, the reproduction number — R for short — has been used as a key measure of whether the virus is under control. This shows how many people, on average, one person with Covid-19 infects. Trying to keep this number under one has been a major part of the Government’s response to the … Read more

Days Of Our Lives suspends filming 2 weeks after a member of production tests positive for COVID-19

Days Of Our Lives suspends filming for two weeks after a member of production tests positive for COVID-19 By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 23:21 BST, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 23:35 BST, 12 October 2020 Days Of Our Lives will be suspending production for two weeks after an unidentified member of the production tested … Read more

For nearly six months RAY CONNOLLY has been in hospital fighting Covid-19. Now he shares his story

From the very beginning I was afraid of Covid-19. That was in January when I first began to read reports of deaths in China.  If that ever reaches the UK, I’ll do everything I can to avoid catching it, I told myself. So, when it did inevitably arrive, my wife Plum and I, at 79, … Read more

Covid-19 infection rates at universities are up to SEVEN TIMES higher than in local cities

Coronavirus outbreaks in student areas are much bigger in the universities than in the towns and cites around them, data shows.  Analysis shows there are up to seven times more cases per person among certain student populations than in the public. Sheffield University reported 588 student infections in the week ending 8 October, which is … Read more

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam: North of England never squashed Covid-19 outbreak properly

The North of England is bearing the brunt of Britain’s second coronavirus wave because it didn’t squash its first outbreak, the deputy chief medical officer has admitted. Official data shows two thirds of UK hospitalisations from Covid-19 are in Yorkshire, the North East and North West, where swathes are expected to be hit with harsher … Read more

Covid-19: Worldwide airport passenger numbers plummeted 58% in the first half of 2020, says report

The dramatic impact of coronavirus on worldwide aviation highlighted in shock new report that reveals passenger numbers plummeted by 58 per cent in the first half of 2020 Data was released by Airports Council International in its airport traffic report  In the first half of 2020, overall aircraft movements globally fell by 41.6 per cent Atlanta, … Read more

How Covid-19 cases are less than HALF of Whitty and Vallance’s doomsday prediction of 50,000

Britain’s coronavirus crisis has fallen far short of the Government’s doomsday prediction of 50,000 cases a day by tomorrow, figures show.  Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty, the country’s chief scientific and medical officers, made the bleak forecast last month as they urged Britons to abide by new lockdown curbs amid rising cases. Speaking at … Read more

White people have driven spiralling cases of Covid-19 cases over the past fortnight, data reveals

White people are fuelling England’s latest surge in coronavirus infections, official data has shown.  Cases among white people – who make up 80 per cent of the population – have risen by more than two-and-a-half times in the last fortnight. A Public Health England report found cases soared from 37.3 per 100,000 people to 97 in the … Read more

Proud parents celebrate the birth of their twin girls just months after mother battled Covid-19 

A father-of-five has revealed he was left ‘terrified’ for his pregnant partner’s life after she was placed in an induced coma for 10 days as she battled Covid-19.   Danielle Martin, 32, from Shankill, Belfast, was nine weeks pregnant in March when she was rushed to hospital after struggling to breathe and tested positive for coronavirus. … Read more