Why gaffes – and an unhealthy, ageing nation – are to blame: BEN SPENCER analyses why Britain’s Covid-19 death toll is so high By Analysis By Ben Spencer For The Daily Mail Published: 23:03 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 23:19 GMT, 26 January 2021 Britain has the world’s highest death rate per person – … Read more
Top intensive care doctors told NHS staff not to blame people for breaking lockdown rules on Saturday, as the number of people on ventilators with Covid-19 surpassed 4,000 for the first time. Dr Alison Pittard and Dr Daniele Bryden, respectively the dean and vice dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, chided other healthcare … Read more
HEALTH NOTES: Going grey? Blame it on your ethnicity By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2021 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2021 The age we go grey depends on our ethnicity, according to researchers from Boston University in the US. By reviewing data from 69 publications on hair ageing, they … Read more
America is set to present dramatic new evidence that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab – in the final act of the Trump administration. Senior officials in Washington say that outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to make a ‘bombshell intervention’. They say he will reveal evidence that SARS-CoV-2 did not leap … Read more
Schools have triggered three times more Covid outbreaks than hospitals since October, official figures show as Boris Johnson today prepared to shut all classrooms until next month. Public Health England reports reveal 26 per cent of investigated Covid infection clusters — or 2,722 out of 10,000 — were linked to nurseries, primaries, secondaries and universities over the … Read more
Pfizer and AstraZeneca have rejected Government warnings of months-long vaccine supply gaps, claiming there will be enough doses to hit the country’s ambitious targets. England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty this week warned that vaccine availability issues will ‘remain the case for several months’ as firms struggle to keep up with global demand. In a bid … Read more
The end of the speeding ticket? Motorists in self-driving cars should NOT be criminally liable if they break the limit or crash (but will need to stay sober), Government legal experts say Government law experts made the legislative proposals in a new report They set out a framework for a complex shift in legal responsibilities … Read more
Climate change – not Genghis Khan – was to blame for wiping out Central Asia’s medieval river civilisations 700 years ago, a new study claims. UK researchers investigated the river channels around the Aral Sea in Central Asia, which was historically a vast body of water but is now a fraction of its former size. Hundreds … Read more
For some diehard Remainers, the images are a vision of what is to come after Britain leaves the European Union – especially if No Deal is in play. Snaking queues of lorries on the approach road to Dover port and far beyond; shipping containers piling up on docksides; a logjam of goods for distribution, from … Read more
Furious Slough locals today scolded lockdown rule-breakers who don’t wear face masks or keep a social distance for the borough being plunged into Tier 3 amid rising cases of coronavirus. While other parts of Berkshire – including neighbouring Windsor where the Queen will spend Christmas – are under Tier 2 restrictions, Slough has been put … Read more