All but five local authorities in England saw coronavirus infections fall last week, official data shows in the clearest sign yet that cases are trending downwards across the country during lockdown. Public Health England figures published today reveal 144 out of 149 areas (97 per cent) recorded a drop in weekly positive tests in the … Read more
The head of the UK’s data privacy watchdog has told MPs she can see the benefit of Covid-19 immunity passports, but warned they could pose data privacy risks and create a ‘two-tier’ society based on who has had the jab. Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham told MPs such a system would raise concerns about how health … Read more
A flaw was identified in the popular video-sharing app TikTok that would have let hackers scrape personal information from users’ accounts, according security researchers at Check Point. Such details included phone numbers, nicknames, profile and avatar pictures, unique user IDs, as well as certain profile settings. The vulnerability, found in TikTok’s ‘Find Friends’ feature, have … Read more
Car thefts accelerated by a third last year, according to new data, despite two national lockdowns and more drivers being indoors to keep a closer eye on their motors. There were 74,769 vehicles pinched from their owners last year – this is a 33 per cent leap up from 56,288 in 2019, according to Driver … Read more
Binmen, male lorry drivers and carers are among the groups most at risk of contracting coronavirus, official figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed. The report published today found that men in ‘elementary occupations’, including binmen, postmen, cleaners and security staff, had the highest number of deaths from the virus last year, with 699 … Read more
American military spies have been buying US citizens’ location data collected by smartphone apps without a warrant, according to a recently unclassified memo. Analysts for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon-run department that specializes in military intelligence, made the revelation in a memo written to Senator Ron Wyden, the Democrat from Oregon. According to the … Read more
NHS intensive care units are almost 70 per cent busier than they have been at any time over the past five years, shocking data revealed today. Official figures showed 5,176 critical care beds were occupied on January 17, the most recent day statistics are available for. For comparison, there were 3,066 critically-ill patients at the … Read more
London appears to have passed the peak of its devastating winter wave of coronavirus, as official data shows infections were falling in all 32 boroughs last week and deaths and hospital admissions have began to plateau. Scientists say the promising figures are proof that tough Tier Four curbs were effective at driving down the spread … Read more
Covid was England’s biggest killer in 2020 and accounted for one in eight deaths, official data reveals as interactive map shows how many virus victims there have been in YOUR area Covid-19 was responsible for 69,101 out of 569,770 total deaths in England in 2020, or 12.1 per cent, ONS says By Connor Boyd Assistant … Read more
Up to 30 PER CENT of Londoners may have already caught the coronavirus – double the number at the start of December, Imperial data reveals Professor Neil ferguson said up to 30% of Londoners may have had the virus Projection builds on data showing cumulative infections until December 1 Study also reveals the infection fatality ratio was … Read more