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I AM not the first to observe that, for those of us who have not lived through wartime, this pandemic is the most challenging and destructive thing many have endured. Until Covid-19 came into our lives around a year ago, we were all living not so much cosseted lives but perhaps sleepwalking through every day […]
THE United States has today reached the grim milestone of 500,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of the pandemic. It comes as the nation's top virus expert Dr Anthony Fauci warned people will have to be wearing masks well into 2021 in a crisis he described as "historic". Signs of hope were emerging in the […]
BRITAIN'S official coronavirus R rate has stayed the same this week – but crept up in three regions, new figures show. The R rate – which represents the number of people an infected person will pass Covid onto – is between 0.6 and 0.9 across the UK, Sage said today. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the […]
CORONAVIRUS symptoms can be different depending on how old you are, experts have claimed. The most common symptoms such as a new persistent cough -were not found in younger patients who had contracted the virus, one study found. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates… Since the start of the pandemic experts […]
For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Auckland: Three new COVID-19 cases have been identified in New Zealand, linked to an Auckland high school. Earlier on Tuesday a student of Papatoetoe High School in East Auckland returned a positive test. It was followed by two of the student’s siblings, a teenager and an […]
UK Covid cases today rose by 8,489 – the lowest the figure has been since the start of October. Another 548 deaths were confirmed, meaning 121,305 have now died from the bug in Britain since the start of the pandemic. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates… The number of new infections […]
BRITAIN has recorded its lowest daily death toll since Christmas – with another 215 fatalities reported today. Cases rose by 9,834, bringing the total to 4,115,509. Today’s rise in fatalities brings the total number since the beginning of the pandemic to 120,580. It is smaller than the 258 deaths recorded last Sunday, and far below […]
Victoria has recorded no new cases of coronavirus in the community or in hotel quarantine the day before Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program begins. It is the second day in a row there have been no new locally acquired cases recorded in Victoria. The last time the state recorded locally acquired cases was on Friday, when […]
HUNDREDS of thousands of Brits have been plunged into poverty by the pandemic, new research reveals. Nearly half a million households are now 'destitute' with less than £100 a week to live off. An estimated 220,000 more households were in the worst poverty by the end of last year in the wake of the coronavirus […]
THE SLOW down in Covid vaccine supplies will pick up again, the chief medical officer for England has reassured. Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said he was “confident” that doses will continue coming into the UK after a recent slump in vaccination rates. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates… Speaking to Sky News, […]