The United States has dipped under 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four days, but experts fear celebrations for the July 4th Independence Day weekend will act like rocket fuel for the nation’s surging outbreak. Johns Hopkins University, which tallies confirmed cases, counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections in the U.S. on Saturday. … Read more
Cheap travel to help fuel fast recovery at Ryanair: Boss predicts passenger numbers will return to pre-crisis levels by next summer By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 2 July 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 2 July 2020 Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary described the coronavirus crisis as the worst the airline industry … Read more
GPS tracking of seven million US college students who traveled for spring break this year ahead of lockdowns suggests they may have brought coronavirus home with them, and spread it in their communities. It supports public health experts suspicions that spring break helped to fuel the virus’s spread in March, when the pandemic was beginning … Read more
Cold air in slaughterhouses and meat-packing factories could be behind coronavirus outbreaks, suggesting winter could bring a second wave of Covid-19. Scientists say cramped and poorly-ventilated working conditions in the factories — the centre of fresh outbreaks in the UK and Germany — could be to blame because they make social distancing difficult. But experts … Read more
Meatpacking plants across the US have become notorious hotspots for coronavirus, and the cold air inside them may be fanning the flames of the virus’s spread. Thousands of workers at meat processing facilities have tested positive for COVID-19, and at least 20 have died. The same cold temperatures and forceful ventilation that help to kill … Read more
Treasury loses more than £2.5billion in fuel duty payments due to dramatic drop in car use during lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 19 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 19 June 2020 The Treasury has lost £2.5bn in fuel duty under lockdown The lockdown has cost the Treasury more … Read more
The fashion craze for trendy quartz kitchen and bathroom counter tops is putting workmen at risk of a ‘new asbestos’ disease that can lead to chest infections, heart failure and lung cancer. Almost 40 per cent of masons who worked on the stone developed lung problems nine years afterwards, even if they had moved jobs, … Read more
Official fuel economy figures quoted by car makers are still being exaggerated despite the introduction of a new official test in 2017 to provide more realistic miles per gallon (mpg) claims, new data shows. Analysis of real-world fuel efficiency measurements of a batch of the latest petrol, diesel and hybrid cars found that – on … Read more
E10 arrival in 2021: Owners of older cars build before 2002 are being warned of the risks posed by newer greener petrol that will be sold at UK filling stations from next year Filling stations across the UK will switch from E5 to E10 petrol in 2021. While it might seem like a case of … Read more
Switching from general to regional anaesthetics may help cut greenhouse emissions and ultimately help reduce global warming, a new study claims. While regional anaesthetics numb a certain part of the body, general anaesthetics make patients totally unconscious for what tend to be more serious procedures. But unlike regional anaesthetics, generals use volatile and environmentally-unfriendly halogenated agents, … Read more