There is a ‘realistic possibility’ the Indian Covid variant is far more transmissible than the Kent strain and could lead to up to a thousand deaths a day by summer, the Government’s scientists warned tonight. The SPI-M subgroup said it was confident the mutant B.1.617.2 strain was more infectious than the currently dominant variant, and that … Read more
Tens of thousands more people could be hospitalised with Covid this summer if the Indian variant of the virus is a lot more infectious, SAGE models have warned — but scientists still don’t fully understand the strain. Alarm bells are ringing over the B1617.2 variant, first spotted in India, which has exploded in England in … Read more
Tens of thousands more people could be hospitalised with Covid this summer if the Indian variant of the virus is a lot more infectious, SAGE models have warned — but scientists still don’t fully understand the strain. Alarm bells are ringing over the B1617.2 variant, first spotted in India, which has exploded in England in … 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
The Indian Covid variant that is surging in Britain could spread up to 60 per cent faster than the dominant Kent strain, a scientist has claimed. Professor Tom Wenseleers, a biologist and biostatistician at the KU Leuven university in Belgium, said on Twitter he had analysed how the two strains compared and found the Indian … Read more
The Indian Covid variant that is surging in Britain could spread up to 60 per cent faster than the dominant Kent strain, a scientist has claimed. Professor Tom Wenseleers, a biologist and biostatistician at the KU Leuven university in Belgium, said on Twitter he had analysed how the two strains compared and found the Indian … Read more
Mathematical modellers who advise SAGE have dramatically downgraded their bleak predictions of more than 100,000 further Covid deaths within the next year and a third wave of the virus to rival the first two. Their total death toll projection – which is shown to the Prime Minister and has previously been criticised for being too … Read more
Mathematical modellers who advise SAGE have dramatically downgraded their bleak predictions of more than 100,000 further Covid deaths within the next year and a third wave of the virus to rival the first two. Their total death toll projection – which is shown to the Prime Minister and has previously been criticised for being too … Read more
Don’t hug too often, keep embraces short and avoid face-to-face contact, is the message from No10’s cautious scientific advisers ahead of the next major relaxation of Covid rules. Boris Johnson will announce England’s next steps out of lockdown at a Downing Street press conference today, where he is expected to confirm that friends and can … Read more