Controversial trials to infect healthy volunteers with covid IS justified, says WHO

The World Health Organization has thrown its support behind controversial trials in which healthy volunteers are infected with coronavirus and risk falling badly unwell. Bosses at the global health body claim the approach could rapidly accelerate vaccine development, which they say make it ethically justified. The WHO has set out eight criteria that would need … Read more

Did Michel Barnier infect PM? The EU’s Brexit negotiator could be Downing Street’s ‘Patient Zero’

Could this be the ultimate revenge for Brexit? The coronavrius that has laid Boris Johnson low may have passed into Westminster’s inner circle via the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, according to one theory. The Mail on Sunday has traced connections between those known to have the virus in an attempt to identify Downing … Read more

Expert describes how one coronavirus patient could infect up to 59,000 others

An intensive care specialist has described how one person with coronavirus could infect up to 59,000 others – as the virus is more than twice as infectious as flu.     Dr Hugh Montgomery, a professor of intensive care medicine at University College London, explained how the virus could be passed from one person to thousands as … Read more

Hackers are building fraudulent coronavirus maps that infect computers

Hackers are using the world’s fear of coronavirus against them. Security experts found fraudulent websites are using maps tracking the outbreak to infect people’s computers and steal personal information. The malicious software being used  is known as AZORult, which was first discovered in 2016 and currently sold in Russian forums with the sole purpose of … Read more