A website built by the University of Cambridge has been created to reveal the risk of infection from coronavirus in indoor spaces. The app has various customisable settings which include level of ventilation, number of occupants and the level of activity and mask wearing. Anyone can use it to find out the level of risk … Read more
A fifth of all critical care units in England were full last week, NHS figures show as the number of Covid patients in hospital continued to spiral. Some 27 of 140 major NHS trusts had no space on the specialist wards, designed to care for the most seriously ill patients who need constant monitoring, on … Read more
Jung, free and single? Try a dating app based on psychoanalysis! Sisters launch hookup tool that puts personality first… and its already led to one couple getting married More than 30,000 people signed up for dating app SoSynced in its first year Sisters Jess and Lou Anderson launched the free app during lockdown It has … Read more
We begin 2021 knowing that vaccines are our way out of this pandemic. Human ingenuity and phenomenal scientific advances make it a case of when, not if, we will return to normal life. The cavalry is here, thanks to our vaccination programme. Across the UK we have already protected more people through vaccinations than any … Read more
Coronavirus outbreaks are spiralling fastest in former Tier One areas and the North of England, official data has revealed. Of the ten councils registering the biggest surges in Covid infections in the most recent fortnight, eight were in the North of England — including three in Cumbria and three in Liverpool. The remaining two were … Read more
Archaeologists believe they’ve found the oldest known tool used for grinding or scraping, dating back some 350,000 years. Found in the Tabun Cave in northern Israel, the implement is a cobble, a type of small rounded stone, and predates homo sapiens by at least 50,000 years. Previously, such tools weren’t thought to have been introduced … Read more
A new online tool reveals how long it will be until different Americans are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizing both Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s vaccines, healthcare workers and long-term care residents have begun being immunized. However, the majority of the population will not be able to receive … Read more
Widows who fear they are underpaid state pension now or were in the past can check their payments on a new web page launched by our agony uncle Steve Webb. The site is designed to give widows an easy way to find out whether they could be missing out on many thousands of pounds, and … Read more
Landlords have seen the number of buy-to-let mortgages slide by almost a third over the past year and rates on offer rise, data shows. The buy-to-let mortgage crunch has seen 800 of the 2,592 deals for landlords on offer in November 2019 vanish, a drop of 31 per cent, according to data from Moneyfacts. Meanwhile, … Read more
CDC’s smartphone tool that will track the first Americans to receive coronavirus jabs may be vulnerable to hackers and anti-vaxxers filing false reports about the safety of the shots, health officials claim V-SAFE is a smartphone tool developed by the CDC to track patients who received the first coronavirus vaccines Patients will scan a QR … Read more