Herd of rare dugongs spotted in shallow waters in Thailand as coronavirus lockdown leaves coastal regions tranquil and undisturbed The sea mammals are classed as vulnerable with only 250 in Thailand A drone filmed a herd in waters off Libong island in Trang province The dugong is closely related to the sea cow and can … Read more
Parts of Sweden could achieve ‘herd immunity’ as early as next month, the country’s leading epidemiologist has said, as the death toll rises. The Government is holding out against a total lockdown despite growing calls for ‘rapid and radical measures’ to contain the coronavirus outbreak. It has cancelled football games and closed university buildings. Restaurants, … Read more
Professor Anthony Costello says Britain faces up to 10 waves of the coronavirus before the population develops herd immunity Britain could suffer 40,000 coronavirus deaths in the first wave of the outbreak, a leading expert has warned – as he claimed the UK may be hit by up to ten bouts of the killer infection before … Read more
Europe could be close to herd immunity from coronavirus already, with far more people infected than previously thought, according to a study in Germany. Scientists studying Gangelt, the town at the centre of Germany’s first big outbreak dubbed the ‘German Wuhan’, discovered that as many as 15 per cent of people may have already been … Read more
Coronavirus has turned business as usual on its head. With the country in lockdown, millions of people on furlough and no clear end in sight, numerous companies are cancelling their dividends to conserve cash. Anpario, a small, AIM-listed business based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, is bucking the trend. The company makes healthy additives for animal feed … Read more
Boris Johnson’s chief adviser on the coronavirus has warned that Britain might still have to adopt the contoversial herd immunity policy to defeat the pandemic. Professor Graham Medley, the government’s chief pandemic modeller, said lockdown measures have pushed the UK ‘into a corner’, with no way of lifting restrictions while keeping the virus under control. … Read more
First goats, now DEER! Herd takes over east London housing estate by lounging on front lawns as animals continue to roam deserted streets during coronavirus lockdown A herd of deer have taken up residence in an east London housing estate The deer are believed to have moved from Dagnam Park to Harold Hill Locals believe … Read more
Dr Anthony Fauci warns Americans that they do NOT have ‘herd immunity’ to coronavirus because too few people have been infected – even as US cases climb past 164,000 Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says herd immunity the coronavirus is unlikely He said there have not been … 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
China’s top coronavirus expert has warned that ‘herd immunity’ will not contain the global pandemic because the disease is highly infectious and lethal. The Chinese senior medical adviser rebuked UK’s approach to allow citizens to catch the virus to build up a national tolerance strong enough to stop the virus circulating. ‘Herd immunity won’t solve … Read more