Britain’s beleaguered Test and Trace system is performing worse than ever, official data today revealed. More than 32,000 contacts of coronavirus-infected patients in England were not tracked down in the last week of September. This is the equivalent of 32 per cent of all 100,000 contacts the service tried to reach. And a further 17,000 … Read more
Almost 90 per cent of Covid-19 patients don’t have any of the three main symptoms of the disease on the day they are tested, scientists have revealed. Researchers analysed data from 36,000 volunteers who were swabbed for the virus between the end of April, a month after lockdown began, and end of June. But just … Read more
TikTok users who have lost their sense of taste due to COVID-19 are poking fun at the unpleasant symptom with lighthearted taste test videos. One of the more unusual symptoms of the novel coronavirus is the loss of smell and taste, which sufferers have found uncomfortable, unpleasant, and alarming. But a few younger people who’ve … Read more
Female surfer is dragged away by hazmat-wearing officials and arrested on Spanish beach after going in the sea while infected with Covid-19 The unnamed woman had worked as a lifeguard at the beach in San Sebastian Her colleagues were the ones to call the police after they saw her surfing She faces a fine of up … Read more
Nearly three-quarters of coronavirus-infected people have no symptoms on the day they are tested for the disease, government data has revealed. Only 28 per cent of people who tested positive for the disease in a random swabbing sample admitted to having any symptoms. The other 72 per cent were completely unaware they were carrying the … Read more
A British man has been left paralysed after coronavirus triggered a rare condition that caused his body to attack his own nerves. The 57-year-old was rushed to A&E on April 13 after struggling to stand upright or move his arms, where a swab confirmed he was infected with Covid-19. By day three in hospital, his muscles … Read more
NHS Test and Trace is still failing to find a quarter of patients who test positive for coronavirus, shocking data revealed today. Of the 6,183 Covid-19 patients referred to the contact tracing programme between June 18 and June 24, just 4,639 were actually tracked down (75 per cent). A total of 1,383 people with the disease … Read more
Fewer than HALF of coronavirus-infected Britons tell officials who their close contacts are as figures show nearly 130,000 people have now been tracked by NHS Test and Trace Test and Trace started at the beginning of June and has reached 135,000 people A total 10,058 people who tested positive have given contacts, out of 20,968 … Read more
Re-engineering coronavirus patient’s ‘own’ immune cells to target and destroy virus-infected tissues could be the key to treating the disease, researchers say Researchers say the therapy involves extracting immune cells, called T lymphocytes, from a coronavirus patient’s blood stream Then receptors on the surface of the cells are engineered to recognize cells infected with the … Read more
Two married couples with coronavirus have now been reunited to see out their treatment and quarantines together in Nebraska, officials there said Tuesday. One person was transferred there earlier this week and a second was moved, from Travis Air Force Base in California, on Tuesday night, but no further details about their identities have been … Read more