Coronavirus: SAGE advisers downgrade warnings on UK’s third wave Covid death toll

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

Coronavirus: SAGE advisers downgrade warnings on UK’s third wave Covid death toll

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

India’s daily Covid death toll tops more than 4,000 for first time

For the first time, India has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-19 related deaths as cases continue to surge across the country and two more states go into lockdown. Saturday’s record of 4,187 deaths takes the country’s official death toll from the virus to nearly 240,000, although the true figure is believed to be much higher.  … Read more

India’s daily Covid death toll tops more than 4,000 for first time

For the first time, India has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-19 related deaths as cases continue to surge across the country and two more states go into lockdown. Saturday’s record of 4,187 deaths takes the country’s official death toll from the virus to nearly 240,000, although the true figure is believed to be much higher.  … Read more

India Covid: True death toll could top 1million before end of the month, researchers predict

India’s true Covid death toll could top 1million before the end of the month after doubling in six weeks, researchers in the US have predicted. Officially, the country has reported just 234,000 deaths from the virus, but most analysts say that is a considerable under-estimate as it only counts deaths in hospital and with a … Read more

India Covid: True death toll could top 1million before end of the month, researchers predict

India’s true Covid death toll could top 1million before the end of the month after doubling in six weeks, researchers in the US have predicted. Officially, the country has reported just 234,000 deaths from the virus, but most analysts say that is a considerable under-estimate as it only counts deaths in hospital and with a … Read more

Shortage of computer chips takes toll on manufacturers

Shortage of computer chips takes toll on manufacturers and threatens to stretch into next year By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 5 May 2021 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 5 May 2021 A shortage of computer chips is wreaking havoc in the world of manufacturing – and threatens to stretch into next … Read more

The Covid toll on older workers: 30% of the 1.3million on furlough fear being SACKED when it ends

The Covid toll on older workers: Over-50s more likely to have had their hours cut while 30% of the 1.3million on furlough fear being SACKED when it comes to an end Some 1.3million people aged 50 and over have been furloughed, ONS found  And three-in-10 say there is odds-on chance they will be sacked afterwards  … Read more

Top consultant claims Covid lockdown has led to a ‘bigger lung cancer toll’

NHS advice to ‘turn off services’ during the coronavirus pandemic ‘led to a bigger lung cancer toll’, says top respiratory consultant Dr David Baldwin was addressing the British Thoracic Oncology Group  Patients with a cough were told by the GPs to avoid coming to the surgery  This, he claims had the effect of severely limiting … Read more

Covid UK: Daily death toll falls by nearly two thirds in a week to 15 fatalities

Britain’s daily Covid deaths have fallen by nearly two thirds in a week as health chiefs recorded just 15 fatalities today.  Department of Health bosses also posted another 2,381 cases, with the outbreak remaining stable. Last Friday there were 2,678 infections and 40 deaths reported.  Another 610,000 vaccines were also dished out, with 14.5million Brits … Read more