The worldwide coronavirus pandemic has led to a shortage of protective face masks, leading to a deluge of online tutorials ion how to make your own using a t-shirt or pillowcase. Homemade masks offer significantly less protection than the N95 medical masks, which are made of a thick, tightly woven material that fits over the … Read more
Andorra (population 77,000) orders 150,000 antibody tests from South Korea – enough to test the entire population twice The Pyrenees micro-state plans to screen the entire population within weeks Andorra’s health minister says the Korean-made tests are ‘absolutely reliable’ Antibody tests can detect who has developed immunity to the coronavirus By Tim Stickings For Mailonline … Read more
Wearing surgical face masks in public may have helped slow the coronavirus crisis – despite Britons being repeatedly told they were pointless. Experts say a full-scale outbreak in the UK could have been prevented if millions of masks had been issued – which has been the case in South Korea and Japan. The British Government … Read more
The UK gave up on containing the coronavirus outbreak ‘too soon’ because scientists assumed most people would become infected anyway, a leading expert has claimed. Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the Edinburgh University, said the assumption led officials to abandon measures that could help slow the pandemic. Those measures include mass testing and stringent contact … Read more
The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, making the outbreak more deadly than the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,977, but the number of daily fatalities are expected to soar over the next two weeks. Total deaths across the United States were at least 541 on Monday alone, and … Read more
The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, making the outbreak more deadly than the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,977, but the number of daily fatalities are expected to soar over the next two weeks. Total deaths across the United States were at least 541 on Monday alone, and … Read more
Germany is planning to test 200,000 people a day for coronavirus in the hope of replicating South Korea’s success in slowing the outbreak, it has emerged. Angela Merkel’s government wants to test all suspected cases and the entire circle of people who have come into contact with a confirmed patient. South Korea ‘can be an … Read more
Social media posts are being used to track whether people are adhering to strict coronavirus lockdown rules in Italy. Researchers claimed to have identified more than 30,000 breaking the rules in March alone after analysing half a million photos and videos from Instagram. It follows similar efforts in China, South Korea and the US to … Read more
The Government claims it has bought 3.5million coronavirus antibody tests – but has refused to reveal who makes them, when they will be available on the NHS or if they can be used at home. Britain has repeatedly been slammed for its lacklustre approach to the crisis after testing just 5,000 people each day and allowing … Read more
London faces plunging deeper into lockdown within days – and potentially with just 12 hours’ notice – amid fears the ‘superspreader city’ is driving the UK’s coronavirus outbreak. After the daily death rate doubled to 33 yesterday, residents in the capital are set for tighter restrictions on their movements – with signs the government will … Read more