About two-thirds of all U.S. coronavirus cases identified over the past three months may be linked to the variant first identified in the UK, a new study suggests. There are at least 11,569 cases of the strain, known as B 1.1.7, in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But … Read more
At least twice as many people in the U.S. may have developed antibodies against the novel coronavirus than official numbers suggest, according to a new study. Researchers looked at results of tests that determine if someone has been infected and if their body has produced immune cells that can protect them from being reinfected. Results, … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus outbreak is no longer shrinking and has levelled off at 9,500 cases a day, according to estimates by a symptom-tracking app. The ZOE Covid Symptom Study predicted there were 9,545 new symptomatic daily infections in the week to February 21, up three per cent on the previous week when it said there were … Read more
Coronavirus cases have plunged by nearly 50 per cent in a fortnight in England, official data revealed today. Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed 481,300 people in the nation were suffering from a Covid-19 infection in the week to February 12, the equivalent of 1 in 115 people. This was 30 per cent below … Read more
More than 100,000 people are likely to die from non-coronavirus causes because of the pandemic, according to an official government estimate. By the end of next month the chaos in hospitals and care homes will have led to 46,000 avoidable deaths, Department of Health research has suggested. Cancellations to routine operations may cause 18,000 excess … Read more
More proof Britain’s Covid crisis is on the way out? Government’s own data shows deaths in London began falling LAST WEEK as symptom-tracking app claims daily cases have HALVED in a fortnight Public Health England’s daily data shows the average number of deaths has fallen four days in a row in London The Covid Symptom Study … Read more
The coronavirus R rate in Britain could be anywhere between 1.0 and 1.4, SAGE said today as studies estimated that 70,000 people are catching the infection every day and the new variant accounts for 61 per cent of cases in England. SAGE’s reproduction rate, which shows how many people each infected person passes the virus … Read more
Almost 70,000 people are developing coronavirus symptoms every day in the UK, researchers warn. The team behind the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app, carried out with King’s College London, say the number of people reporting symptoms each day is up 27 per cent in a week from 55,226 to 69,958. It comes after the Office … Read more
One in 30 Londoners had Covid-19 last week, according to ‘frightening’ new estimates. Roughly 1.1 million people in private households in England – the equivalent of around 2.06% of the population, or one in 50 people – had coronavirus between December 27 and January 2, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Meanwhile one in … Read more
England’s chief public health officials tonight unveiled gloomy graphs that show how all models of the coronavirus second wave predict the number of deaths will exceed their ‘worst cases scenario’. At the heart of the scientific data supporting Boris Johnson’s decision to plunge England into a second lockdown was a graph comparing the predictions of … Read more