Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King’s College London, said the UK’s mini coronavirus outbreaks are ‘ripples’ caused by a failure to completely flatten the first epidemic The UK’s mini coronavirus outbreaks are just ‘ripples’ caused by the failure to completely flatten the first epidemic and not proof of a second wave, according to a … Read more
Outbreaks of Covid-like illnesses in care homes are at their highest levels in a month, data from Public Health England show. In the week from July 13 to 19 there were 145 outbreaks of ‘acute respiratory infections’ in homes around the country, up from 128 the week before. An outbreak constitutes two or more people … Read more
Outbreaks of Covid-like illnesses in care homes are at their highest levels in a month, data from Public Health England show. In the week from July 13 to 19 there were 145 outbreaks of ‘acute respiratory infections’ in homes around the country, up from 128 the week before. An outbreak constitutes one or more people … Read more
School reopenings WILL trigger coronavirus outbreaks, study suggests: Korean CDC finds middle and high school-age children can spread the virus just as easily as adults The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at household and nonhousehold contacts of more than 5,700 coronavirus patients Children under age 10 were about half as likely as … Read more
Spain has been hit by at least 200 new coronavirus outbreaks since it began easing lockdown restrictions. A beach in Barcelona, a wedding in Tudela and a Red Cross centre in Malaga are among the places where new clusters have been found in recent weeks, leaving health officials scrambling to carry out mass tests. Dinner parties, … Read more
More than one hundred outbreaks of coronavirus are ‘swiftly and silently’ being dealt with every week across the UK, said the Health Secretary. Matt Hancock revealed how flare-ups in schools, businesses and pubs across the country are consistently being handled with ‘local actions’, just nine days after many businesses reopened. He stated that increased testing, some … Read more
Britain will inevitably suffer ‘big’ Covid-19 outbreaks if people continue to flout social distancing rules, a leading expert claimed today. Dr David Nabarro, a World Health Organization coronavirus expert, conceded that ‘everybody has got to have fun’ after more than 100 days of lockdown. But he warned clusters of the virus will inevitably break out … Read more
Twenty six percent of counties across the United States are now battling uncontrollable coronavirus outbreaks, a data map shows – as the number of infections increased by 40,000 for the third day and forecast models predict at least 150,000 deaths by August. The data map, compiled by spatial analytics company Esri, shows that counties in the … Read more
The EU is currently weighing whether to ban American travelers from entering Europe due to the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. European Union officials are in the process of drafting lists to determine who can enter the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries are faring with their current … 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