More than a million people in Greater Manchester are living in boroughs where coronavirus infections are falling, casting serious doubts about whether a ‘Tier Three’ lockdown is really justified. Some 2.8million residents in the region will be plunged into the harshest category of restrictions at midnight on Thursday after a series of looser localised measures … Read more
Google Maps will show data on coronavirus outbreaks in your region using a color-coded layer to highlight the number of cases A new layer on Google Maps gives information on reported cases in a region The seven-day average of new infections will appear with a label indicating if cases are trending up or down Country-level … Read more
The oldest alpine plant region on Earth, in the Hengduan Mountains of south-west China, dates back more than 30 million years, scientists say. US and Chinese researchers say the alpine flora of the Hengduan Mountains has continuously existed far longer than any other alpine flora on Earth. The diversity of plants in the region today can be … Read more
A second Spanish region made up of 70,000 people is going back into lockdown after a new coronavirus outbreak. Entry into and out of La Marina, which lies 90 miles east of La Coruna in Galicia, will be banned from midnight tonight and gatherings of more than ten people will be banned to limit the possibility … Read more
A second Spanish region made up of 70,000 people is going back into lockdown after a new coronavirus outbreak. Entry into and out of La Marina, which lies 90 miles east of La Coruna in Galicia, will be banned from midnight tonight and gatherings of more than ten people will be banned to limit the possibility … Read more
London becomes the first region in England to see deaths fall BELOW average as Covid-19 crisis continues to fade and coronavirus death toll plummets to 10-week low In London 891 people died of all causes between May 30 and June 5, down from 917 average for that week At least 47,820 people have died across … Read more
The south west region is emerging from lockdown more quickly than the rest of the UK while Londoners are most likely to stay home, new figures have revealed. Anonymised mobile phone data gathered by Oxford University shows population movements were on average 37 per cent of normal levels in the south west in the week … Read more
The south west region is emerging from lockdown more quickly than the rest of the UK while Londoners are most likely to stay home, new figures have revealed. Anonymised mobile phone data gathered by Oxford University shows population movements were on average 37 per cent of normal levels in the south west in the week … Read more
Margaux is explaining how babies drink champagne before they drink milk. ‘Really,’ she assures me, ‘it’s a tradition that goes back generations. A family member puts a drop or two on to the baby’s lips after it is born.’ Margaux, 25, was born and grew up in Reims, in the heart of the French Champagne region. … Read more
Stress lives in the hippocampus region of the human brain which is also responsible for motivation, emotion and memory, study shows Scientists from Yale exposed 30 volunteers to evocative images to cause stress They tracked stress levels and where it came from in the brain using MRI scans Found it stems from the hippocampus and … Read more