The June end of lockdown will be ‘in doubt’ if the Indian Covid variant sees a surge in serious illness, a top medical expert warned today, threatening to send the Government’s unlocking plans into chaos. Epidemiologist Professor Paul Hunter said that the nation faces an anxious wait to see how serious the outbreaks of the … Read more
Could the Indian variant derail our exit plan? Your vital questions answered as new Covid mutant spreads By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:52 BST, 13 May 2021 | Updated: 08:17 BST, 14 May 2021 What’s going on? Cases of a coronavirus variant first detected in India are rising in the UK, potentially threatening the lockdown-easing … Read more
Blenheim Palace will call their Indian Room the Summer Terrace Room during a new exhibition on Sir Winston Churchill ‘to avoid colonial connotations’. Bosses at the country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, will use the alternative name for the show on the UK’s greatest prime minister. They said they ‘didn’t want to provoke controversy’ and wanted … Read more
Blenheim Palace will call their Indian Room the Summer Terrace Room during a new exhibition on Sir Winston Churchill ‘to avoid colonial connotations’. Bosses at the country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, will use the alternative name for the show on the UK’s greatest prime minister. They said they ‘didn’t want to provoke controversy’ and wanted … Read more
Coronavirus infections have doubled in a week in four Indian variant hotspots, official figures show, amid fears lockdown easing measures could be delayed because of the mutant strain. But Public Health England cautioned there was no need to panic yet because infections nationwide were ‘stable’ and hospitalisations have continued to drop. Dr Yvonne Doyle, PHE’s … Read more
Boris Johnson today admitted he was ‘anxious’ about the Indian variant spreading rapidly in the UK and warned the Government would ‘rule nothing out’ in its effort to contain it. The Prime Minister claimed England’s lockdown-easing plans on Monday and June 21 were still on track — despite cases of the B.1.617.2 strain tripling nationally in … Read more
Boris Johnson today admitted he was ‘anxious’ about the Indian variant spreading rapidly in the UK and warned the Government would ‘rule nothing out’ in its effort to contain it. The Prime Minister claimed England’s lockdown-easing plans on Monday and June 21 were still on track — despite cases of the B.1.617.2 strain tripling nationally in … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus cases have risen by 65 per cent in a week amid the rapid spread of the Indian variant, a symptom-tracking app warned today. The King’s College London study estimated 2,800 Britons were being infected with the virus every day last week, up from 1,686 in the previous seven-day spell. But one of the … Read more
An urgent meeting will be held by experts at the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies committee today in order to discuss the spread of India’s Covid variant – which is now dominant in four local authorities in England. Scientists at SAGE will examine the spread of the mutant B.1.617.2 virus which is thought to be behind … Read more
An urgent meeting will be held by experts at the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies committee today in order to discuss the spread of India’s Covid variant – which is now dominant in four local authorities in England. Scientists at SAGE will examine the spread of the mutant B.1.617.2 virus which is thought to be behind … Read more