India’s surging Covid second wave has so overwhelmed crematoriums that grieving families are being forced to burn victims in their own gardens. The country announced a record 349,661 infections and 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours and bodies are continuing to pile up, with experts predicting the surge to continue for weeks. In Delhi, … Read more
Another 55 cases of the Indian Covid variant in the UK have been discovered, increasing the total by 71 per cent in a week, official figures show. Latest data from the Government shows the troubling strain had been detected 132 times by April 21, up from 77 on April 14. Cases are mainly located in … Read more
An oxygen tank leaked outside an Indian hospital today, killing 22 Covid-19 critically ill patients after their supply was shut off. All of the victims were on ventilators and in need of constant oxygen supply at the Zakir Hussain Hospital’s Covid ward in the western city of Nashik when the supply was disrupted for around … Read more
Boris Johnson will hold a press conference tonight amid growing concerns about the Indian coronavirus variant. The Prime Minister is due to appear in Downing Street’s new briefing room at 5pm after coming under fire for taking too long to ban travel to India. No10 only announced India was being added to the UK’s travel … Read more
Boris Johnson will hold a press conference tonight amid growing concerns about the Indian coronavirus variant. The Prime Minister is due to appear in Downing Street’s new briefing room at 5pm after coming under fire for taking too long to ban travel to India. No10 only announced India was being added to the UK’s travel … Read more
The Indian coronavirus variant could ‘pose a threat’ to Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown, an expert warned today. It is feared the B.1.617 strain spreads more easily than older versions of the virus and scientists say it has mutations which may help it evade vaccines. Professor Danny Altmann, an Imperial College London immunologist, said … Read more
Confirmed UK cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus – which scientists fear could evade current vaccines – have doubled in the past week, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, analysed publicly available information on new variant numbers last Saturday and again yesterday and found … Read more
Confirmed UK cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus – which scientists fear could evade current vaccines – have doubled in the past week, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, analysed publicly available information on new variant numbers last Saturday and again yesterday and found … Read more
The Indian Covid variant is unlikely to set lockdown easing back to ‘square one’ because immunity from vaccines ‘won’t just disappear’, a leading immunology expert claimed. Member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) Professor Adam Finn said he expected a ‘gradual erosion’ of vaccine protection as the virus evolves. But he said it was … Read more
The Indian Covid variant is unlikely to set lockdown easing back to ‘square one’ because immunity from vaccines ‘won’t just disappear’, a leading immunology expert claimed. Member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) Professor Adam Finn said he expected a ‘gradual erosion’ of vaccine protection as the virus evolves. But he said it was … Read more